Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 21:34:38 -0800 From: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org Subject: Re: Solaris x86 emulation Message-ID: <199703160534.VAA17902@hamby1>
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> Greetings,
> Any chance that Solaris x86 binaries would run on FreeBSD? I
> didn't see anything in the tree, but thought I'd ask around before
> trying to make {Open,Net}BSD's Solaris emulator work with FreeBSD...
> Specifically, I'd like to get CDE or Wabi running, if my license
> allows it....
I already responded to Warner privately, but I thought I'd briefly comment to
hackers as well. Unfortunately, there are only so many hours in the day, and I
never did get around to attempting to integrate NetBSD's SVR4 emulation into
FreeBSD.
However, I did try NetBSD/sparc, and it was able to run Solaris Netscape and
other binaries, once I copied the Solaris and OpenWindows shared libraries over.
And basically, that's going to be your problem, even if you can get WABI to run
on FreeBSD/NetBSD, you're going to need to buy a copy of Solaris/x86 in order to
get the shared libraries you need. On SunSite, I remember seeing GPL'd versions
of libc for Linux's SVR4 emulation, but that still leaves OpenWindows.
If you want CDE, you can buy a copy from http://www.xinside.com/.
You can get WABI for Linux from http://www.caldera.com/
Either of those is going to be feasible to run under FreeBSD, whereas the
Solaris/x86 versions aren't. Of course, if you can get an academic discount,
you can go the route I did and just buy Solaris (less than $150). It's a bit
slow sometimes on my 486, but I live with it because I'm doing Solaris
development, and I really like Sun's WorkShop environment.
Cheers,
Jake
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