From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 15:21:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D510437B479 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 15:21:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12261 invoked by uid 100); 2 Nov 2000 23:21:21 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14849.63217.363256.545148@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:21:21 -0600 (CST) To: Doug Moore Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:36:57 -0600 In-Reply-To: <89563890@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Moore types: > We are trying to run some Unix binaries that were written in Japan. We > would like to be able to to run them on a PC will BSD run all Unix > binaries. I did get them to compile on a Linux system but got an error " > cannot execute binary fie" got little or no help from Linux. I have had > some, but very little Unix experience can anyone suggest a way to go. No Unix will run all Unix binaries. FreeBSD does a pretty good job of running binaries from other x86 Unix systems, but unless you know what Unix system they were written for/compiled on, that doesn't do you very much good. If you can find out which Unix they were written on, and which compilers they used, it would go a long way towards helping others help you solve the problem. The ideal solution would be to get a copy of that Unix and that compiler to work with. Failing that, you want things as close as possible to those things, and someone with a little experience porting things.