Wow, this is great news ! -- Ram
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been working with a few friends on porting the reference > Go toolchain to amd64 Solaris for some time. It is now ready > for a wider audience. A mercurial repo can be found at: > https://bitbucket.org/4ad/go-sunos > > We hope to integrate this into the main Go repository once the code freeze > (pending the upcoming Go 1.2 release) ends on December 1st. > > Everything that doesn't use cgo should be working[0]. The performance > of the networking libraries is subpar, this will be addressed soon. Cgo > support is planned; it will come, eventually. > > If you encounter any bugs, please file them here[1], but only after you > checked the main issue tracker here[2]. Please don't use the main issue > tracker until this is merged upstream. > > I have used OmniOS and SmartOS for this port. Every illumos-derivative > should work. Solaris 11 and Solaris 10 probably should work, but are > untested. I would appreciate if people tested this on Solaris 10. > > Solaris 8 and 9 will probably not work, but can be made to work with > relatively little effort. > > This is 64-bit Intel only. A 32-bit port should be easy to do, but it is > not planned; neither is a SPARC port, which would require writing a > new compiler. > > Many thanks to Dave Cheney, Shenghou Ma, Devon H. O'Dell, Richard Lowe, > Bryan Cantrill, Joshua M. Clulow, Brendan Gregg, Jonathan Perkin, Neil > Houston; they all contributed in various capacities, either with code > or valuable advice. > > Thanks, and have fun! > > [0] TLS should work but loading the host CA roots will not. > > [1] https://bitbucket.org/4ad/go-sunos/issues > [2] http://code.google.com/p/go/issues > > -- > Aram Hăvărneanu > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175777-e7632f0f > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Belenix: www.belenix.org ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
