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Old 29th August 2009
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Originally Posted by Stellar View Post
anyone have tried run lazarus on openbsd?
As someone new to OpenBSD, you should take the time to familiarize yourself with its scope -- & part of this process is to read & study the official FAQ:

http://openbsd.org/faq/index.html

The BSD family approaches the world from a different standpoint than Linux. OpenBSD uses a different filesystem layout (see the hier(7) manpage...) than Linux, & the system calls & common libraries aren't always the same. This means that some effort has to be typically put into taking code found in the wild to ensure that it runs on OpenBSD as intended. More information can be found in the compat_linux(8) manpage.

A significant number of third-party applications have already been ported to OpenBSD & can be found in the package/ports system official sanctioned & supported by the Project. You will find a significant amount of information in Section 15 of the FAQ:

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html

You should take the time to study this information.

I don't know anything about Lazarus, nor do I know anything about what effort needs to be expended to port it to OpenBSD. This may be a trivial task; it may be very involved. The point being made here is that you should always check the ports system for an application first given that porting any application to this environment commonly requires more work than a simple recompilation of the application's source base.

Most people who port third-party applications to the OpenBSD environment submit their work to the Project such that it can be included in the sanctioned packages/ports system.
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