Linux program in FreeBSD

+3 A:

You can run a lot of Linux programs on FreeBSD, see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html.

If this doesn't work, the easiest solution would be to recompile your program on FreeBSD.

Bastien Léonard 2010-03-24 09:09:00

Thank you. This means, I don't have some magic solution, which allows to build FreeBSD binaries with GCC on my Ubuntu computer?

Alex Farber 2010-03-24 09:29:18

It's possible (it's called cross-compiling), but it's not necessarily the easiest solution. Maybe there's a package which installs GCC for FreeBSD; I can't realy help you here.

Bastien Léonard 2010-03-24 09:38:13

+1 A:

A large number of linux programs can be compiled on BSD systems however they are not the same operating system. A binary compiled on an Ubuntu Box will not run on a BSD box. Your best bet is always to compile on the system you plan to run on.

Mimisbrunnr 2010-03-24 09:11:29

+1 A:

Try branding the executable as a linux executable using brandelf (you still need all the dependent libraries setup though, or try linking it statically

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=brandelf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE&format=html

Gautham Ganapathy 2010-04-23 11:02:10

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