On Wed, 25 May 2005, Eric Frias wrote: > > Gcc, gas, and gld need to be from the GNU toolchain, the rest > > seems to work as Solaris native. > > This is how I do things (with gld). From what I've gathered on the gcc > mailing list, using gcc and gas with the native linker seems to be the > preferred configuration. I've been meaning to try building with the > native linker sometime, but I haven't gotten around to it since gnu's > linker seems to work so well.
I will try it using the native ld and see what happens. > > You mentioned that you had patches for Wine on SPARC, would you mind > > sharing them or should I do a google search for them? > > I don't have an easy way to make a suitable patch -- it always takes a > bit of work to separate the experimental changes I've made that others > wouldn't be interested in from the important changes fixing real bugs. > > For now, I'd suggest getting them from: > http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2004/11/author.html > under 'Eric Frias'. There aren't too many. > > That said, I'm not convinced those patches will be enough to get it > working. I've been working on merging in all of my patches to the > latest wine here, and there were a few conflicts. Some of those patches > have already been applied, and one of the patches to winebuild I'm kind > of worried about doesn't make sense anymore -- looks like the DLL import > stuff moved from the data segment to the text segment. I don't know if > that is going to cause problems on sparc or not... > > I'll be trying to get the current wine running this afternoon; I'll post > something when it's working. I look forward to hearing how this turns out. -- Have Fun! Chuck Hall
