Interestingly enough, I believe that at some point back in time, someone showed that certain simple programs could run under both Linux and BeOS. As was pointed out, the syscalls are different. It would be an interesting project, probably post R1, to see if the OBOS syscalls could be reordered and maybe wrappered a little bit to provide compatability with Linux. THIS IS NOT A PROMISE. Just my thinking aloud... >It was mentioned in a previous post that the linux and BeOS ELF format is >the same. I am a Delphi Developer that would really like to help where I >can. My specialty is System utilities so I consider myself technically savvy >but I have a question. >Are compilers tied to an OS? > >For example if the Borland Kylix command line compiler will run on OBOS is >there a reason it couldn't be used to develop applications for OBOS? I have >verified that the Kylix compiler will output ELF formatted binaries. I do >understand the IDE and the "include" files would not work and would need to >be re-implemented. I just want to know if this is a worthwhile project. > >Thanks. >James Wall >jkwall@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jkwall@xxxxxxxxxxx>