Darwin and Linux, really

[DarkSaint]

I know there are a few programs that have the ability to compile and run in both Darwin/FreeBSD environments and on Linux environments. What I need to know is what is a deciding factor when it comes to these programs? Do some of them require a library or something that one OS has standard which the other does not? In particular, I am attempting to build Linux Quake II under Darwin. After checking the makefiles, changing 'gcc' to 'cc' and such, but ends up having errors after not finding specific header files, such as cdrom.h and other important files. Anyone been able to build Linux Quake II under Darwin, since it's doable under FreeBSD (running under Linux emulation), unless of course Darwin does not have Linux emulation (which any respectable *BSD should) in which case I'm screwed.

Thanks ahead of time

[Craig R. Arko]

I think you'll find many of those 'respectable' *BSD's still depend on Intel architecture for the GNU-Linux emulation.

I don't think Darwin does it, although Jordan Hubbard may do something about that some day.


Edit - although if KDE (http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3177) can be ported then many other things may not be far away.


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