Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:16:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dave Walton <walton@nordicdms.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linux libs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204101533.15507B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980203063803274.AAA242@mail-ftp.nordicdms.com>
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On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Dave Walton wrote: > I know that FreeBSD can run Linux executables, but can it link Linux > libs? More to the point... I want to use PHP on FreeBSD to talk to > MS-SQL. Sybase has released a free Linux ct-lib binary that will > work with MS-SQL as well as Sybase. Compiling PHP to support Sybase > and MS-SQL with that library would (presumably) require linking with > it. Is this anywhere near the realm of possibility, or should I look > elsewhere for a solution? A Linux cross-compiling environment exists. You can't link Linux libs in a FreeBSD binary but you could build a LInux binary using the linux lib and use the emulator to run it. I think the port name is linux-devel, in category devel. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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