Can programs compiled in FreeBSD be executed in DragonFly BSD ?

John Marino dragonflybsd at marino.st
Tue Nov 11 15:41:10 PST 2014


On 11/11/2014 22:20, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
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> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com
> <mailto:dillon at backplane.com>> wrote:
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>     No FreeBSD and DragonFly's system calls have diverged.  Not sure
>     what you mean by 'no free pascal or lazarus in dragonfly', but if it
>     is open source it can probably be compiled under dragonfly.
> 
>     -Matt
> 
>     On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
>     <m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com <mailto:m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         Dears All ,
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> 
>         Is it possible to execute a program compiled in FreeBSD with
>         Pascal be executed in DragonFly BSD KDE or Gnome  desktop ?
> 
>         There is NO Free Pascal and Lazarus in DragonFly BSD .
> 
>         Thank you very much .
> 
>         Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
> 
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> There are the following pages for porting Free Pascal to a new operating
> system :
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> http://wiki.freepascal.org/Porting_Free_Pascal
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/Porting_Free_Pascal_Example
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> My knowledge is not sufficient to generate such a port .
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> 
> Thank you very much .
> 
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
> 

It's not easy to do.
Saying all it needs is a bootstrap compiler is misleading -- FPC has to
support DragonFly.  Getting FreeBSD to cross-compile to DragonFly is not
very hard, but the support has to be there first.

I tried to do this a few month ago.  I got about 80% done but I lost the
work.  I'd have to start again from zero.  My version failed during
cross-compiling.  If you are asking somebody else to do this, you are
asking quite a lot.

John




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