Trying to support my product on BSD

Eugene Grosbein eugen at kuzbass.ru
Fri Jan 18 05:26:48 PST 2008


On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:18:08PM +0530, navneet Upadhyay wrote:

>        My product is successfully running on Linux( all most all versions)
> and HP- UX and Windows .
>   *It is 100 % C++ code*.
>  I am planning to support it on FreeBSD, i have two queries :
> 1. *How to build my code into binaries* on FreeBSD , i have my unix make
> files. Just to give an idea i have around 200 cpp files and they complile to
> 5 binaries . I am using multithreading(posix on linux) and sockets heavily.
> 2.* How to package the binaries*(RPM sort of thing). Idea is to provide a
> package to user who can install them binaries using this package by issuing
> single command.

First, please read The Porter's Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html

If, after finishing, you still have a question, ask again :-)

Eugene Grosbein


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