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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!syix.com!news7.crl.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Porting to X-Windows App to FreeBSD Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 19:11:46 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3349A962.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <01bc433b$a8ea7380$c95178cb@klondike> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Ben Hantz <klondike@pacific.net.sg> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38708 Ben Hantz wrote: > > I've got C source to an application that builds on HP, dUNIX, SGI, AIX, and > Ultrix commercial unixes...using the built-in commercial C compiler, not > gcc. I've tried to compile this code on Linux using gcc, (I'm not a C > programmer, I'm a C hacker at best), and have run into many problems with > the calls to the X library, e.g. invalid argument types, invalid number of > arguments to "Xfunction". You must have a bogostity in that Linux installation. There is no problem with compiling the same X apps under Linux or FreeBSD that I've encountered so far - they work just like the "commercial unixes" in that regard. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.