From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 16: 0:49 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 16:00:47 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A19B837B400 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:00:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBK00bK05905; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:00:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:00:37 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Scott Cruzen Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux Emulation Message-ID: <20001219180037.A29169@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20001219155832.A14191@lerp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20001219155832.A14191@lerp.com>; from "Scott Cruzen" on Tue Dec 19 15:58:32 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: dan@dan.emsphone.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 19), Scott Cruzen said: > Hi, Is it possible to build a native FreeBSD program that links to a > Linux library? > > In particular, I'd like to be able to build a native program that > links to the Linux OCI stuff (Oracle client libraries). No; it wouldn't even be able to do any FILE * operations, as our struct FILE is different from Linux. The only solution is to install the linux_devtools port and build Linux binaries. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message