Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 11:00:03 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> Cc: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: COFF->BSD converter Message-ID: <199611071700.LAA24032@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Nov 1996 21:00:37 %2B0500." <199611071600.VAA25791@hq.icb.chel.su>
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"Serge A. Babkin" writes: > >Hm, I don't know. Is objcopy another thing from binutils ? > Yea, I think Mike Smith, mentioned something like ./configure --host=freebsd --target=freebsd,sco,... >> What compat libraries and headers do you need? Is the stuff from linux' >> ibcs2 any help? > >The following things can be included in a converted executable file: > >1. SCO ojbect files. Need: to be converted to BSD format (done). > >2. SCO source files. They are often used as a kind of tuning. Need: to be > >3. Compatibility libraries. They are supposed to be written in BSD > >4. BSD object files. If they want to use the functions that are > >Perhaps the iBSC2 support can't help here (except for adding some >kernel features). Unless I'm mistaken the linux ibcs2 stuff may help in 3. I was under the impression that they were distributing and/or able to build SCO shared libraries for libc/curses/..., possibly just a wrapper to their own shared libs. can anyone verify or dispell this? >> >> because the free SCO is ELF :( > >It has binary files in ELF but libraries are both for ELF and COFF. Ok, guess I didn't look close enough. > >> Is anyone working on ELF support for SCO? > >I'm wondering this too. :-) I'd be real suprised to see SOS jump on this one. Nor can I blame him for not doing so. Since we replaced his ibcs2 with NetBSD's and they seem to have SVR4 ELF compat, that's probably the place to start. > >-SB eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com
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