[openbeos] Re: PPC Cross-compiling

  • From: "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 06:49:35 -0800 (PST)

Two possibilities:

1. Rely on the libraries, and build new versions which EXPORT the same
calls as the Linux libs, but use OBOS syscalls

2. Install a small kernel-mode driver/patch that interprets Linux
syscalls under OBOS.

--- Michael Noisternig <michael.noisternig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I meant the "include" files James was talking about - they may be the
> same but the system calls are different. Of course they are 
> hidden by 
> the API. But you need standard libraries (e.g. stdlib) for even the
> most basic apps so they won't work. 
> 
> François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote on 22.02.02 00:20:05:
> >
> >Most of the syscalls are handled by the libs
> >(even simple things like fork() are simple wrappers functions in the
> standard 
> >library) Well, this is in the case the system is cleanly designed
> :^)
> >
> >
> >En réponse à Michael Noisternig <michael.noisternig@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> >> It won't work because all the system calls are different from
> Linux to
> >> BeOS. It's not only a matter of libraries.
> >>
> 
> 


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