From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 14:31:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D5016A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:31:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anon.securenym.net (anon.securenym.net [209.113.101.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FFD43FD7 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:31:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dincht@securenym.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by anon.securenym.net (8.11.7/8.11.7) id h9FLU7V04885 for questions@freebsd.org.filtered; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:30:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200310152130.h9FLU7V04885@anon.securenym.net> X-Securenym: dincht From: "C. Ulrich" To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20031015003825.GA49177@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200310150005.h9F05T829532@anon.securenym.net> <20031015003825.GA49177@rot13.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: The Peter Jennings Fan Club Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:27:45 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: cross-compiling Linux apps on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:31:40 -0000 On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 20:38, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:04:24PM -0400, C. Ulrich wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if there is any way (preferably an easy way) to build > > Linux applications from source on FreeBSD with the intention of running > > them in FreeBSD. > > It's not completely straightforward, but you can install the > linux_devtools port, then chroot to /compat/linux and run /bin/bash, > then compile things from there as normal. You'll have to install > whatever other packages are needed to compile your software. Thanks! I will definitely look into that. > > My conundrum is this: I want to be able to use a Java (and perhaps > > Flash) plugin with Firebird on my FreeBSD workstation. From what I > > understand, a native FreeBSD Java web browser plugin doesn't quite exist > > and isn't likely to in the near future. > > That's incorrect..there are several. Hrm. After doing some looking around on the mailing lists, I was under the assumption that there weren't or that they were unusable. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could point me to them. Thanks! Charles Ulrich -- http://bityard.net