From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 1 16:12: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E785F37B42C for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000901231130.ORNP25970.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:11:30 -0700 Message-ID: <39AFD55C.728AC2A7@home.com> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 16:12:13 +0000 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Fuchs Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting to FreeBSD References: <00c801c0145f$db567960$e5a1f4cc@office.uniserve.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There is the FreeBSD Porters' Handbook, which I downloaded last night from the ftp site, but it seems to deal mostly with how to make a port conform to FreeBSD specifications and how to properly submit it. There is little or no info about how to convert 'x' to FreeBSD. I would also like to know of any additional info about Linux to FreeBSD ports. I have actually tried this with 0 success so far. Rob. David Fuchs wrote: > > I'd like to port some Linux software to FreeBSD, but I'm not sure on how I > would do such a thing. Does anyone know of any website resources on the > internet that explain how to port applications? I've been looking for a > while now but I'm still not sure on where to start. Any resources at all > regarding C++ programming in a UNIX environment would be helpful. > > Thanks in advance! > > ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ > -David Fuchs > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message