[fpc-pascal] FPC 2.x for old Solaris

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> Thanks for that, noted for next time :-) The solution turned out to be 
> fairly easy: the Solaris compiler uses dynamic libraries since some 
> (libm) don't exist in static form on 10 and others (libmd5 etc.) don't 
> exist in static form at all. Taking ppcsparc from 10 and running it on 8 
> failed because it was linked against libm.so which was a symlink to 
> libm.so.2, it was resolving that at link time so required libm.so.2 
> rather than libm.so. However libm.so.1 is on Solaris 10 and simply 
> changing the symlink before linkage created a binary that would run on 
> both 10 and 8.
> 
> So the remaining question is whether it it possible to tell FPC build to 
> always link against libm.so.1 rather than using the symlink, since 
> messing around with the symlink would obviously be undesirable on a 
> system with multiple users.
> 
> As noted elsewhere I've got FPC on Solaris 10 to the state where it will 
> compile (but not fully link) Lazarus, fpGUI appears OK so we're probably 
> at a state where lazbuild on simple projects would work.

FPC 2.4.2 is OK on both Solaris 8 and 10, including the fp text IDE 
(without mouse or debugger support). Minor patches in bug 0018271 might 
be a prerequisite.

I'm not trying Lazarus on Solaris 8 on account of missing libraries etc.

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

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