At this time, that's true. That said, it's not a herculean effort apparently, to port it, given that (correct me Alex or other if I'm wrong) Solaris uses ELF. Uses gas (not sure if it matters) "You" or the person doing the porting knows Sparc assembler.
But of course not simple to do either... On 03/03/15 23:27, Rick Hanson wrote: > All, does this mean that picoLisp64 cannot be built on a Solaris 10 sparc64 > box? (That's what I have.) If not, no worries; I can, and will be happy > to, still use picoLisp32 there. Thanks! > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Rick Hanson <cryptor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> down *by* the river. (I can't even get *that* right.) Cheers! >> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Rick Hanson <cryptor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Duh! That's it! And it even says x86 in the name!!! (e.g. >>> `x86-64.sunOs.tgz`) I hereby turn in any computing creds I've garnered over >>> the years to be thrown into burning inferno where they belong, and I'll go >>> live in a box down my the river. :) Thanks! >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Jakob Eriksson <ja...@aurorasystems.eu> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> You are not by any chance on a Sparc platform? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 03/03/15 20:57, Rick Hanson wrote: >>>>> Sorry in advance if you’ve already covered this issue in the past. >>>>> >>>>> I’m on Solaris 10; I can build the 32-bit picolisp (3.1.9) with no >>>> problem. >>>>> Then, I go do a (cd src64; make) (which is GNU make btw); this builds >>>> the >>>>> x86-64.sunOS.base.s file via mkAsm, but it fails in the next step on >>>> gas >>>>> --64 (which reads the .s file) with a bunch of errors of the form >>>>> >>>>> Error: Unknown opcode: `$OP' >>>>> >>>>> where $OP is any one of several opcodes, e.g. adc, addq, clc, ja, jbe, >>>> jz, >>>>> movb, mul, etc. >>>>> >>>>> FIrst, I thought that a very old version of gas might be causing the >>>> issue >>>>> (i.e. maybe it was not able to understand some of the new (?) opcodes; >>>> yes, >>>>> I was very optimistic :); so I downloaded, built and installed binutils >>>>> (2.24.51) which gave me a new gas. The new gas was of no avail — the >>>> same >>>>> types of errors occurred. >>>>> >>>>> So, I then downloaded the .s files for Solaris from here: >>>>> http://software-lab.de/x86-64.sunOs.tgz and unarced them in the >>>> picoLisp >>>>> directory. As you can imagine, this didn’t work either — the same >>>> Unknown >>>>> opcode messages were appearing. >>>>> >>>>> I suspect that I’m making a very fundamental mistake here, but I can’t >>>>> quite put my finger on it. Am I using gas wrongly, or do I have the >>>> wrong >>>>> assembler? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for any help. >>>>> >>>>> —Rick >>>>> >>>>> rick42 on #picolisp >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >>>> >>> -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
