running freebsd-6 programs?

Oliver Fromme check+j8vtng00rsbqnaxq at fromme.com
Fri Nov 17 08:06:31 PST 2006


Yury Tarasievich wrote:
 > No response, at all? Is this endeavour completely nonsensical then,
 > or what? :)

FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD have diverged quite a lot.
To run freeBSD-6 binaries on DF you would need some
kind of ABI layer, similar to the linux ABI.  It is
definitely non-trivial, because there are some major
infrastructural differences.

If you need to run a closed-source software that is
available for FreeBSD 6 and Linux, it's probably much
easier to try to get the Linux binary running.

Best regards
   Oliver

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