From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 02:52:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B25FB16A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 02:52:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E080943F93 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 02:52:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp110-132.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.110.132])hAGAqRTn023345; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:22:27 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost.dons.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAGAqPlT051341; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:22:25 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Kris Kennaway , Markus Niemist? Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:22:24 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20031116115530.01e5be79.markus.niemisto@iki.fi> <20031116102825.GA8917@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20031116102825.GA8917@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311162122.24541.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loading a shared Linux library from a FreeBSD program? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:52:31 -0000 On Sunday 16 November 2003 20:58, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Is there any way to load a shared Linux library from a FreeBSD program? > > I don't think so. With a bit of effort, you can compile your source > as a Linux binary on FreeBSD. This has been discussed a number of > times in the past - see the mailing list archives. Hmm, well I think you CAN do it - the flash wrapper (www/flashpluginwrapper) does it. There be dragons, voodoo etc.. Probably easier to write a wrapper linux program and talk to it over a pipe :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5