Converting libfoo.so for linux to freebsd

Norikatsu Shigemura nork at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 15 13:29:06 GMT 2005


On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:14:51 -0600 (MDT)
"M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <20050812070328.GA45385 at obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
>             Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie at le-hen.org> writes:
> : Hi Warner, Norikatsu-san,
> : > : 	Linuxpluginwrapper(LPW) is a most famous killer application
> : > : 	of libmap.conf(5)!  (I think:-)
> : > Definitely.  While threading games are interesting, the linux plugin
> : > wrapper definitely is much more useful.
> : Why don't import this in base system and wrap it in a user friendly
> : tool ?  Some kind of advanced Linux compatibility.
> The wrapper is specific for each library or plug-in that it wraps.  It
> might be hard to generalize enough to warrant inclusion in the base...

	I don't know in the base...  But LPW Episode II will provide
	following feature:

	1. Integratied Plugin Wrapper Library
	  The early LPW was implemented few functions, and unstable
	  which I thinked.  To implement core functions needed by
	  Netscape Plugins, so I splited pluginwrapper.
	  But recently, I noticed that some functions are required
	  by some plugins.  As result, I made similar wrapper libraries.
	  So I'll try to integrate wrapper library.

	2. Add AMD64 Target Architecture
	  I didn't make wrapper library for i386.  So I'll try to
	  split MI/MD:-).  But I cannot implement amd64->i386
	  wrapper:-(.

	3. Improved Source Tree
	  I'll try to change source tree like FreeBSD's src/lib/libc.


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