Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 12:20 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
OK, it compiles and runs with that hack- at least enough to prove the
concept.
Thank for giving feedback on your progress - I'm glad I could help a
bit.
You helped a lot, because fpGUI and the UI designer are probably usable
for GUI work on Solaris with minor tweaks, and might be usable for
simple Lazarus projects (using lazbuild, not the IDE).
definitely not trying to find fault here, since I think being able to
bring it up on a new OS that easily shows your code in a very favourable
light.
Unfortunately I don't have access to a SPARC system, so it will be up to
you if you want to take this further. I wonder if fpGUI will behave the
same on a x86 Solaris system - as it does on your SPARC Solaris system.
I'll see if I can download a OpenSolaris CD or something, though I have
never worked on Solaris either. I went to DistroWatch and read that
OpenSolaris is discontinue... is that only OpenSolaris, or Solaris (if
there still is a product like that) as well?
I've got one Solaris 8 and one Solaris 10 development system, I'm
currently backporting FPC onto 8 (works, but haven't proven it can
compile itself). I might go looking for (Open)Solaris 11, but at present
everything appears to be in flux since OpenSolaris has forked/migrated
to try to achieve independence from Oracle... I don't even know whether
they currently have anything downloadable.
If you (or any other FPC/Lazarus developer) wanted access I could
probably set up an SSH reverse proxy to get you through our firewall.
However I'd much rather not have the Sun machine on any more than
necessary- it's in my workroom and is loud, hot, and hungry. On the
other hand it's several orders of magnitude faster than some of the
other kit I've got here, e.g. the ARM which takes a week to link Lazarus.
My own opinion is that Solaris and possibly SPARC might be worth
supporting. I think that Oracle will be more positive about SPARC than
Sun were in their final couple of years- having their own line of CPUs
that they can use for distinctive turnkey systems is probably good
business. In that case Oracle will backtrack on their existing
commitment to Linux and instead push Solaris, to be honest Sun did not
appear to be fully committed to to Linux and if you wanted to do
anything clever with their kit you had little option but to run Solaris.
The remaining big question is how many Java users Oracle will alienate
with their attempts to take full control, and whether Lazarus can take
advantage of the situation.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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