[fpc-devel] Building FPC on SPARC Solaris

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Just a note to confirm that FPC 2.6.0 builds and installs from source on 
> SPARC Solaris 10 and 8. I had to revert from 2.5.1 to 2.4.4 on one 
> machine before it would compile, the other was still on 2.4.2.
> 
> I am definitely not complaining, but purely for information I note that 
> the fp IDE isn't built (was OK with 2.4), and that all make operations 
> require NOGDB=1 (etc.) even though this is only referenced by the fp 

NOGDB might have been a phantom, possibly caused by the version of 
compiler I was using to do the build.

> build makefile. I've not investigated whether there are any code 
> generation bugfixes that haven't got into 2.6, if anybody wants me to 
> look in more detail please say.
> 
> I might be having problems getting Lazarus back up, but I'll discuss 
> this elsewhere if necessary.

Any problems I was having were apparently caused by a missing 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, without which Lazarus and/or the LCL can't find 
libcairo.so.2 etc.

I note that Solaris on SPARC doesn't require the -Xn option to force use 
of Solaris's native linker, I've updated the Wiki accordingly.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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