As many have said, you'll need to get access to the source code to even think about doing this. In youe case this is all but impossible unfortunately. On 9/30/08, Nick Scholtes <airchia at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Maybe I misunderstood the whole "rebuild" thing. You said: > <Many applications can be built natively on Linux with little, or no, > modification. In most cases, there is no reason to 'rebuild' an > application.> > > Could you explain this more? Maybe this is what I was thinking of. > > Nick > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Eric F Crist > <ecrist at secure-computing.net>wrote: > >> On Sep 30, 2008, at 8:13 PM, Nick Scholtes wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> How do you re-build apps from source? I have heard that any software can >>> run perfectly on Linux if you re-build it. How do I do this? Especially >>> if >>> it is closed-source software. I would like to re-build Lightwave 3D to >>> run >>> on Linux. (Actually, I have a number of graphics applications I use that >>> I >>> would like to re-build on Linux.) >>> >>> I have used Linux a lot, but am still very much a noob when it comes to >>> the CLI and code. If someone could walk me through this (as in, baby >>> steps) >>> I would really appreciate it. I'll worship the open-source ground you >>> walk >>> on! ; ) >>> >> >> >> Many applications can be built natively on Linux with little, or no, >> modification. In most cases, there is no reason to 'rebuild' an >> application. Packaged binaries generally make use of needed features >> within >> the kernel and system. Most people do not need to rebuild a program from >> source. >> >> This is a deep hole... Don't dive in until you *need* to, and are ready. >> --- >> Eric Crist >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Art: http://www.coroflot.com/bellsoffreedom > -- Erik Anderson http://andersonfam.org