From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 21 10:58:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28535 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28439 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:58:22 GMT (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.0.Beta3/8.9.0.Beta3) with SMTP id NAA13206; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:54:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:54:07 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Lynn Gazis cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and BSDI binary compatibility In-Reply-To: <9804211640.AA17640@elan.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Lynn Gazis wrote: > > > Will binaries compiled on FreeBSD also run on BSDI? > > > > Probably not. FreeBSD's binary format is pretty unique. Depends on what > > you're doing though. > > > > A server/client application using TCP/IP. Otherwise, standard C system > calls. Is there, by any chance, any option I can compile with, or library > I can link with, so that this *will* be binary compatible to run on BSDI? Compile them with the -static option. That will give you the best chance of things working. > I've just spent a week getting FreeBSD installed and the application > ported there, and been told that the customer really wants BSDI. Just change FreeBSD to BSDI in all source files and make world. They'll never know the difference. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message