Can C/C++ software be compiled into bytecode for later execution? (Architecture independent unix software.)

Question

I would want to compile existing software into presentation that can later be run on different architectures (and OS).

For that I need a (byte)code that can be easily ru

Answer 1

There are several C to JVM compilers listed on Wikipedia's JVM page. I've never tried any of them, but they sound like an interesting exercise to build.

Because of its close association with the Java language, the JVM performs the strict runtime checks mandated by the Java specification. That requires C to bytecode compilers to provide their own "lax machine abstraction", for instance producing compiled code that uses a Java array to represent main memory (so pointers can be compiled to integers), and linking the C library to a centralized Java class that emulates system calls. Most or all of the compilers listed below use a similar approach.