[haiku-development] Re: Porting old BeOS code to Haiku-OS

  • From: "Earl Pottinger" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "earl_colby_pottinger@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 15:18:32 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 5/28/14, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 Subject: [haiku-development] Re: Porting old BeOS code to Haiku-OS
 To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Received: Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 1:12 PM

<SNIP>

>> While we strive to maintain binary compatibility there
>> are some instance where we've broken source
>> compatibility making it so that you have to make changes
>> to get an app that compiled under BeOS to compile under
>> Haiku. I've ported a few apps and there are almost
>> always a few changes that need to be made.

Thanks you for your help.  I will try to follow the advice you gave.

I would just like to point out that while I am having problems with 
re-compiling the code that most of the original binaries are running fine.

It is just that the age and style of the programs really need updating.
 


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