> On a related note, I don't know if people use xanim, a movie viewer in > the ports collection, but it's recently been upgraded to support > dynamically loadable codecs. The problem is that none of the codecs > are compiled for FreeBSD, although there are three Linux versions :-). > To use them (really to use the program at all) you have to compile a > Linux version of xanim and run under emulation (which works really well, > thanks > emulation guys!). > > Yes, I've tried using the Linux codecs on the FreeBSD binary. No dice. > > The author is perfectly willing to compile these codecs for FreeBSD, > but because he's under NDA for the codecs he can only release compiled > versions. He's only willing to compile versions for other OSes under > Linux (i.e. compile the codecs for FreeBSD on his Linux machine) or on > a donated machine. (His reasoning for this, which IMHO is rational, > is on http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/xa_dlls.html ) > > Given that he's running Linux, is a "cross-compiling environment" any > more complex than having him link against our libc? If not can > someone give me an idea what he does need. > > I'm delighted to act as a contact point and a tester for the xanim > author, but I just don't know enough about our link environment. > > Anyone want to enlighten me? (I tried this on multimedia, and got no > response). > > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ted Faber fa...@isi.edu > USC/ISI Computer Scientist http://www.isi.edu/~faber > (310) 822-1511 x190 PGP Key: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkey.asc > The only reason some of the linux codecs are not useable on FreeBSD is the reference of symbol __IO_stderr, it should be quite easy to convert them to references to &__sF[2].
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