From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 12:34:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03135 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:34:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (mail-ftp.nordicdms.com [208.1.210.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03075 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:33:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walton@nordicdms.com) Received: from mail-ftp (mail-ftp.nordicdms.com [208.1.210.10]) by mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO205e ID# 0-0U10L2S100) with SMTP id AAA263; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:33:48 -0800 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: walton@nordicdms.com (Dave Walton) Organization: Nordic Entertainment Worldwide To: Doug White , FreeBSD Questions Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:33:48 -800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Linux libs Reply-to: walton@nordicdms.com References: <19980203063803274.AAA242@mail-ftp.nordicdms.com> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) Message-ID: <19980204203348818.AAA263@mail-ftp.nordicdms.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On 4 Feb 98 at 10:16, Doug White wrote: > 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. Hmmm... So I'd have a Linux-compiled Apache loading a Linux-compiled mod_php linked with the Linux ct-lib all running under the Linuxulator. Anyone have any comments about the stability and reliability of that setup compared to a native Apache and mod_php setup? Thanks, Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------