Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 15:50:42 +0000 From: Simon Marlow <simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compiling Linux Binaries under FreeBSD Message-ID: <199511071838.KAA28882@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 1995 08:20:17 MST." <199511071520.IAA03718@rover.village.org>
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> : Ok, so now that we have Linux emulation, what is that chance of my > : being able to set up a Linux compilation environment under FreeBSD? > > Are you asking if you can build a compiler that runs native on freebsd > that will produce linux binaries (in which case it is a simple matter > of configure options). > > If you are asking for running gcc from linux on freebsd to produce > linux binaries, then it should work via the same mapping mechanisms > that make shared libraries work. Sorry, I should have said: it's the latter, because I'm lazy and can't be bothered building a cross-compilation environment when I could just run the Linux versions of these tools directly :-) Cheers, Simon -- Simon Marlow simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk Research Assistant http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~simonm/ finger for PGP public key
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