Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!teemc!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Cross-Compile Xenix on ISC? Message-ID: <251@raysnec.UUCP> Date: 18 Feb 91 18:06:38 GMT References: <39320@cup.portal.com> Organization: IRS/CI - Technical Solutions Branch Lines: 26 Bron@cup.portal.com (George Bron Faison) writes: >Is it possible (and what's involved) to compile Xenix binaries on >an Interactive UNIX system. Since ISC seems to run most Xenix >software OK, can one just buy the Xenix development stuff and run it under >ISC? Since you already have ISC, I would suggest instead that you go with ISC's Development System. I've had numerous programs "break" under SCO Xenix/386 SDS (ksh-i for one) which ISC handles without problem. ISC includes a number of advanced facilities (like ETI, a superset of curses, and cscope). The compilers further carry assumptions about kernel structures, filesystems, etc. that may not hold for the two environments, and indeed the two split their include files differently between Runtime and SDS. The one advantage of the Xenix SDS is the option to create DOS binaries. Our own attempts to create such binaries from non-trivial source have had limited success. Tests on Xenix/386 systems running 2.3.1+, which I hope are those you will be using, show success running ISC binaries. Finally, unless recent info has changed ISC's SDS is cheaper than SCO's. We do ISV work here using the two packages and are not beholden to either vendor. ----------- uunet!media!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake shwake@rsxtech Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com