Hey Sriram, > I spent some time this weekend figuring out the effort involved in > porting Songbird to Solaris. > Songbird is a major (IMO) application that depends upon XulRunner, and > since I've got XULRunner to build on Solaris, I've decided to start to > help port other XULRunner based apps to Solaris.
Great idea! > - Quite few external dependencies do not have Solaris versions yet. > This list includes the likes of mp4 (which depends on libpthread - > is there a Solaris version and is this API compatible with what mp4 > depends on ?), OpenSolaris has libpthread. It is in fact the recommended threading library. > libogg (I've only seen posts about problems with > compiling libogg on Solaris 8 and on Solaris 9. And that's with the > gcc. Is is possible to customize the build of Songbird? It might be easier to just build MP3/MP4 support initially and then add OGG later. > - The biggest problem may well be the use of the gcc for these vendor > dependencies. I've myself not been able to build Firefox/XULRunner on > Solaris 10 and above using the gcc. I use Sun Studio 11 instead. > I've seen vtable issues when mixing libraries linked with two > different tool chains. i.e., libA (gcc built)depends on libB > (sunstudio built). Mixing g++ and Sun Studio libraries would not work. I would recommend trying to build with just the Studio 11 compilers. > Looks like building Songbird itself on Solaris would be one of the > last steps to address. Great! Let us know how it goes. Cheers, Venky.
