From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 1 18:58:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD0237B42C for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 18:58:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e821vwc17440; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 11:27:58 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 11:27:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Fuchs Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000902112758.A17337@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <00c801c0145f$db567960$e5a1f4cc@office.uniserve.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <00c801c0145f$db567960$e5a1f4cc@office.uniserve.ca>; from dfuchs@uniserve.com on Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:59:09PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 1 September 2000 at 14:59:09 -0700, 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. To start with, I'd assume that you just compile it. > 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. Well, there's my book "Porting UNIX Software", but it's somewhat out of date. > Any resources at all regarding C++ programming in a UNIX environment > would be helpful. I don't think this is relevant to porting. Linux and FreeBSD both use the same C++ compiler. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message