[rsaxvc]

So one time, I bought this sweet Sun Workstation on craigslist, Opteron64 and Quadro and everything...

So far, autogen.sh needs to be edited to allow autotools version 1.10 to work, bug filed on mantis.

conftest.c comes out empty when testing for SDL, leading to a linker error for missing main.

Anyone familiar with our build system / autotools have an idea?

[portej05]

FSO probably doesn't really support Solaris - but I honestly can't remember what flavour of Unix it is!

[rsaxvc]

I understand that it doesn't support Solaris, but I would like to fix that - that's why I created this thread.

Solaris is based on System 5 Rel 4.

[Topgun]

who actually uses solaris for games?

[chief1983]

It can run Doom, or Quake or something, I think.  Maybe BZFlag

[rsaxvc]

Ahem. Solaris was one of the first unix platforms for opengl, right after SGI, and I think around the same time as HP.

Specifically, my box has 4 pci-e x16 slots, so I could SLI whatever I wanted to, but one Quadro should be enough for fs2_open.

[Topgun]

isn't solaris made for SPARC systems? would you need to compile for SPARC?
BTW you can get linux for SPARC.

[The E]

Solaris is just a *NIX distribution, in the same way that Ubuntu is just a Linux distribution. While it still maintains compatibility for SPARC, it also runs on x86 and x64 architectures. I am assuming that rsaxvc is running Solaris on a more or less standard x86/x64 box.

[chief1983]

Solaris was originally for Sparc but now there's Solaris x86 and even OpenSolaris x86.  It's also not 'just UNIX'.  Solaris is a completely different OS, as much as Linux or OS X are.  Maybe even moreso than OS X.

He even did mention that it's running an Opteron64 so you even know exactly what type of CPU is in the box

I have a feeling there's stuff going to be in the way with this but I'd love to be proven wrong.

[Topgun]

He even did mention that it's running an Opteron64 so you even know exactly what type of CPU is in the box

oh, yeah...

I focused on "sun workstation" and thought sparc.

[rsaxvc]

Ahem. Sun boxes were originally Motorola 68k based. Then came Sun 386i. Then came Sparc, which they still produce. There has been a big movement toward x64 though.

I don't know if I'd agree with equating a 'Unix Distribution' with a 'Linux Distribution'. All linux distributions are a lot more similar to each other than man unix distros. At least linux distros all have a related kernel.

The box is surprisingly standard though. Normal bios even, none of that openprom terminal. Powersupply and sata connectors are weird though. Sata connector has 4 channels on it, and a hot-swap backplane attached to it.

Also, I got some code to compile today. Pretty sweet! However, I don't have root right now, nor do I have openAL, which I pretty much need root to install.

[Topgun]

I post then read, its bad habit of mine.

[rsaxvc]

is there a minimum version of gcc for fs2_open?

solaris comes with 3.4.3 by default

[chief1983]

I'm sure it used to compile with 3.4.3, but something may have broken it since.

[rsaxvc]

The problem I was having was caused by some inline mac assembly that leaked in.

I upgraded to gcc 4.? before I figured it out.

Also, it compiles!
Also, it links!

After getting Solaris to accept the homemade libraries, it crashes gdb

[chief1983]

Don't run it through gdb?

[rsaxvc]

It segfaults.

The biggest problems in compilation were assumptions about includes (if A includes B, I don't need to include B) that aren't true outside of linux and starfield code which has a bunch of variables named 'sun', which is defined to 1 on Solaris.

[chief1983]

Haha system reserved names.  That's awesome.

So I suppose the better way to do the includes is explicitly check if the header is defined, just to make sure it gets in one way or the other, or include it anyway and let the other header sort that out.

[rsaxvc]

Or, for every define we use, just make sure to include the header, and the macroguards should figure everything else out.

FIONBIO (filio.h) was the only one I had trouble with.

[rsaxvc]

Here's instructions to get solaris to compile/link.

http://rsaxvc.net/blog/doku.php?id=building_fs2_on_solaris

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