how to use linux .so in freebsd application

Chicky ShnoodleSoup chickyshnoodlesoup at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 16:24:18 GMT 2005


Could you point me to the thread discussing it?
I went through the 2 archives and couldn't find it :(

Thanks,
C

On 8/22/05, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:20:50PM -0700, Chicky ShnoodleSoup wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks to the linux binary compatibility
> > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html),
> > I am able to run a linux application using the linux dynamic library
> > on a freebsd machine.
> >
> > Now I am trying to get a freebsd application (same application but
> > compiled on freebsd) using the linux .so (don't have the source to
> > compile it on freebsd)  running on freebsd.
> >
> > Is that possible? if yes, how to do it?
> > How to tell the compiler to use freebsd libraries for the application
> > and the linux ones for the linux .so?
> 
> This was recently discussed here and on -hackers.
> 
> Kris
> 
>


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