On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 07:08:42AM -0500, Jon Lindgren wrote:
> I need to do some development using a package which isn't native on
> NetBSD.  The company provides this software (which consists of a few
> dynamic libraries and a few executables) for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris,
> but not for NetBSD.  I know that I should be able to set up emulation to
> run the executables, but will I be able to develop a native NetBSD app
> which links against their [emulated] libraries?  Or does emulation not
> imply compilation?

It depends on the format. I've been able to successfully link native NetBSD
binaries with BSDI objects. But both NetBSD and BSDI were a.out at the time.
I guess if your FreeBSD lib is the same format (a.out or ELF) as the NetBSD
one you may be able to get something working.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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