Re: Porting binaries from Solaris/SPARC to Linux/Intel

ganeshnt@s7solutions.com (Ganesh Tiwari) wrote in message news:04-08-057...
> i want to write a program, which works much like ldd command, which
> goes throgh c/c++ binary on solaris/SPARC and check whether it is
> possible to port it on to linux/intel. How do i do this? what are
> the parameters to look for in binaries for porting. Any guide lines
> in this direction would be world of good to me. Please reply to this
> fast, i am running out of time.


If your code is POSIX compliant, it should be portable across UNIX'es
for the most part. Look for a list of solaris-only libraries (path
would be a good hint) in the ldd output to decide on the same.


> [Uh, how are you planning to turn the SPARC instructions into x86
> instructions? I'd think that library calls would be the least of
> your problems. -John]


I suppose he means that after resolving all dependencies, he wants to
give a go-ahead to re-compile the program on Intel/Linux. Mapping
instructions may not be an intractable problem -at least x86
instruction set to SPARC does work as WABI(windows application binary
interface) would attest to.


regards
-kamal

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