Comments on: For all you Xenix fans out there….

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:22:04 +0000

In reply to pobard.

I only grabbed what I wanted, didn’t expect the site to disappear…. So lucky I grabbed anything.

I presume you searched the rest of what I had bothered to save?

https://archive.org/download/ftp-kiae_su-xenix

By: pobard

pobard — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:37:16 +0000

Thanks. But very poor park of choice, fileutils, coreutils (If compile), vim are missing.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:38:54 +0000

In reply to pobard.

Try archive

https://archive.org/details/xenix-files-from-vpsland

By: pobard

pobard — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:59:08 +0000

bad news, site down and no mirror, anyone know where to get Xenix open source software?

I have found this but very poor repo

https://github.com/gattilorenz/xenix-bins/tree/main

By: JPSnowdon

JPSnowdon — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:07:02 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

I think I was missing the development system.

This is the procedure I followed to get GCC 2.5.8 working:

Full install of base 2.3.4 Operating System packages
Full install of 2.3.0d Development System packages
Install GCC 1.40c vfd floppies (all files in these old archives seem to be compressed) (missed this step the first time around)
Run /usr/local/lib/fix.h.xenix (missed this step the second time around!)
Unpack GCC 2.5.8
cp libgcc*.a /usr/local/lib
cp ginstall /usr/local/gnu/bin
make install
Then make install of fileutils, findutils etc all start to work.

Any luck with anything like bash or newer versions of GCC?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:53:01 +0000

In reply to JPSnowdon.

are you using the vfd I made of gcc? … … ..

By: JPSnowdon

JPSnowdon — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:16:29 +0000

Hi guys, I’m tinkering with Xenix 2.3.4/386 at the moment and have obtained the binaries of GCC 2.5.8 that are floating around and have them installed, however trying to compile anything results in the following error:

ld: cannot find “Sseg.o”

Also, running a make install on the GCC 2.5.8 tarball (after fixing some path related issues) gives me an error when trying to build fix-header.c regarding a missing “sys/types.h” header file. Is types.h part of the SCO Development system? I appear to have no headers as part of my system.

By: PacoLinux

PacoLinux — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:39:27 +0000

Not xenix, but a interesting experiment would be running AMIX with uae.

AMIX : http://www.amigaunix.com/tiki-list_file_gallery.php

Paco

By: Neozeed

Neozeed — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:45:02 +0000

Yes, it's very cool in that they left the sources in there, along with the binaries.

For gcc 2.5.8 I had to setup the following, after installing my gcc 1.3.7 floppy:

cp /usr/local/bin/gas /usr/local/bin/as
install gmake
install texinfo
install fileutils (or at least copy ginstall to /usr/local/gnu/bin/install)

unpack 2.5.8 in /u/tmp
copy libgcc*.a to /usr/local/lib
make install ought to work now

I tested 'joe' and it seems to work with gcc 2.5.8

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:31:40 +0000

just to point it out, it's not binaries but sources 🙂