From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 11:52:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC9B37B43F for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:52:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA22319 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:52:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02772 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:49:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G0U9QN00.P4T; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:51:59 -0400 Message-ID: <39BFCC44.29835DC3@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:49:40 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Miguel A. de Avillez" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Linux software in FreeBSD References: <39BFC73C.5367371@amnh.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Miguel A. de Avillez" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I would like to know where can I learn about the way linux software runs > in a FreeBSD box. In particular I would like to know if it is possible > to use compilers specifically built for linux, or I only am able to run > linux executables? You should be able to run linux compilers just fine with the linuxulator to build linux images that you can run with the linuxulator. An easier approach might be to simply compile the source into a FreeBSD image and run it directly. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message