C compatability between SCO UNIX and Altos 2000 XENIX

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <264 at twg.wimsey.bc.ca> bill at twg.wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes:
>
>Tim wishes to develop C code on the TWG 386 system running SCO UNIX and run
>those binaries on the Altos 2000 Altos XENIX system. It is not working, and
>it should not, because SCO UNIX C code binaries are not compatible with Altos
>XENIX. I know this.

One possible solution to this problem would be to copy the Altos compiler and
it's associated libraries to the SCO Unix system and use them to compile the
code.  SCO unix should be able to run the compiler with no problems and
since the binaries are generated with an Altos compiler they should run on
the Altos with no problems.

Remember, if you are going to do this you need to copy all the include 
files, /lib and /usr/lib libraries, the compiler, and the linker.  There
may be a few additions modules that you need (that I don't recall off 
the top of my head).

To make sure that you don't clobber your SCO-Unix compiler stuff I would
recommend that you set up this stuff in a chrooted environment.  

I did this one time to run the Xenix compiler under Interactive.


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