From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 17 22:18:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA14778 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:18:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA14747 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:17:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA08272; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:17:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:17:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Barry Masterson cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD C executables on NetBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Barry Masterson wrote: > I hope this is a simple and quick question. Will a C program > compiled on a 486 intel based FreeBSD system run on an intel > based Pentium running NetBSD? > > The neighborhood web server is such a pentium system, but > without the C compiler. Will it work, or should I start on the > serious perl programming. I would guess not depending on what you programmed. If it was a 'hello world' program then probably, but anything more complex than that I would say no. Why not just compile your C program on NetBSD? They should cross compile without a problem (again depending on how much you do in the way of syscalls). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major