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Re: libFL.a for FreeBSD ?

To: beyssac@xxxxxxx (Pierre Beyssac)
Subject: Re: libFL.a for FreeBSD ?
From: jlim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan Lim)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:00:41 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: info-inventor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20000921194437.Q25080@xxxxxxx> from "Pierre Beyssac" at Sep 21, 2000 07:44:37 PM
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On Thu Sep 21 10:44:37 2000, beyssac@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> I've been trying to port the Open Inventor sources to FreeBSD.
> 
> It all went mostly okay except for a few missing includes, until
> the link phase where I realized that libFL.a was provided as a
> Linux binary only. [ Since FreeBSD uses the ELF format, this simply
> showed up as undefined symbols __errno_location, stderr and __ctype_b
> at link time ]

If you're willing to use the FreeType library in the meantime, Ang Bodhi has
written some code to do so. Check his web site at

  http://www.geocities.com/angbodhi/download/

I will be looking into integrating that later on.

> Hence my question: would it be possible to get a libFL.a binary
> for FreeBSD 3/4 for i386 ? I'd be happy to provide access to a
> FreeBSD machine if necessary.

Thanks for the offer, but I don't think we can copy the source outside of SGI.

> Pierre Beyssac                pb@xxxxxxx


              Jonathan Lim  _  Silicon Graphics  _  Mountain View
              GPS Graphics     Computer Systems        CA, USA

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