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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!hookup!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.databases.informix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Anyone running Informix 4GL/SE on Linux or FreeBSD? Date: 11 Mar 1996 18:22:54 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4i1r1u$si@helena.MT.net> References: <968.313F5F73@purplet.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:91529 comp.databases.informix:25684 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15381 In article <968.313F5F73@purplet.demon.co.uk>, Mike Jagdis <jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk> wrote: >* In message <4hkfn8$51o@helena.MT.net>, Nate Williams said: > >NW> I've run Informix/SE in SCO emulation mode on my FreeBSD >NW> box, but all >NW> the binaries I'm using were developed/compiled under SCO >NW> since none of >NW> the free unices allow you to link against SCO libraries. >NW> (That's a *tough* problem) > >Actually linking against SCO libraries is easy. The tough part is that you >need to *have* the SCO libraries. Fair enough, but then you are basically creating a complete SCO development setup on a FreeBSD box, which requires that you have a SCO developement license in order to get all of the necessary libraries and include files. It's *much* easier just to install SCO on a separate partition to do the development. >Although for Informix 4GL you should be >able to get away with a pretty basic libc and possibly a libnsl_s (TLI >library) for newer Informix versions. Plus all of the necessary include files and such. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth