On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:45, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: > Adrian Maier wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I wanted to download the latest freepascal for Sparc Solaris . >> >> Issue 1: >> Opened the http://www.freepascal.org/download.var , clicked on >> the "SPARC Solaris" link. >> It opened the page for selecting the mirror. >> Clicked on Sourceforge , which lead to : >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/ >> >> The problem here is that this page doesn't seem to contain any Solaris >> stuff . >> >> Issue 2: >> I went back to the mirror selection, and clicked on ftp.freepascal.org . >> This link is ok , but it contains the 2.4.2 sparc solaris FPC . >> >> This is not consistent with the main download page >> (http://www.freepascal.org/download.var) , which implies that 2.6.0 >> is available for the entire list of platforms and operating systems >> (which includes the SPARC solaris ... ). >> >> Perhaps it's worth taking a look at the download page , so that it >> presents in a clearer way which FPC version is available for each >> platform ? For example create a separate section for the >> less-supported platforms. The way it is now, it implies that 2.6 >> is available for all the platforms - which is unfortunately false. >> >> >> >> I currently have ssh access to some Sparc Solaris servers. Does it >> involve a lot of work to create the solaris builds ? > > > I don't know to what extent anybody is routinely producing Solaris/SPARC > releases. I try to test the compiler on v10 (and to a limited extent on v8) > on a fairly regular basis, but I started off with [checks] 2.4.2, had to do > a bit of hacking to get it installed (see > http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=18271) and then compiled newer > versions from there.
The server is a SunOS 5.10 . Uname -a : SunOS bebrxsu005 5.10 Generic_147440-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise Solaris I'll try to find some time for installing the 2.4.2 and building the 2.6. Thanks for the link : the comments will be useful in case i encounter problems . > In practical terms, you might need to be on 2.7 since there are a couple of > code generation bugs that weren't backported to 2.6- this affects both > Solaris and Linux. Lazarus 0.9.30-fixed should compile and run on v10 now > that some alignment patches have been incorporated. I am hoping that 2.6 would be enough (not targetting lazarus) . Compiling a development version would be painful because there is no way to directly access the svn server ... > In all cases, you need the freeware gas, gld, gmake and probably gtar etc., > and need to be careful with your paths. The server has the GNU make and tar . But the as and ld are not GNU. And i have no admin rights : so i can install software only in the home dir. -- Adrian M _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal