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From: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD C executables on NetBSD?
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Thanks for responding Doug. I tried a simple Hello World program,
and it did not work.  I was hopeing the similar architectures would
be close enough, or that there was an "#INCLUDE <netbsd.compatible.h>"
library, or something.

Compile on NetBSD? Thats an option I'm now considering, adding a
small NetBSD system to this FreeBSD box.

Thanks again.

Barry Masterson
jbarrm@panix.com
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Doug White wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Barry Masterson wrote:
> 
> > I hope this is a simple and quick question.  Will a C program
> > compiled on a 486 intel based FreeBSD system run on an intel
> > based Pentium running NetBSD? 
> > 
> > The neighborhood web server is such a pentium system, but
> > without the C compiler. Will it work, or should I start on the
> > serious perl programming.
> 
> I would guess not depending on what you programmed.  If it was a 'hello
> world' program then probably, but anything more complex than that I would
> say no.
> 
> Why not just compile your C program on NetBSD?  They should cross compile
> without a problem (again depending on how much you do in the way of
> syscalls).
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
>