Seth Grover wrote:
Quick question: http://freepascal.org says:
"It is available for different processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86_64,
PowerPC, PowerPC64, Sparc, ARM."
"The following operating systems are supported: Linux, FreeBSD, Haiku,
Mac OS X/Darwin, DOS, Win32, Win64, WinCE, OS/2, Netware (libc and
classic) and MorphOS."
Then, lower, it lists:
"Sparc architecture - 16 MB of RAM is required. Runs on any Sparc
Linux installation (solaris is experimental)."
Most of the references to Sparc/Solaris that I'm finding on the
mailing list and whatnot are quite old. Can someone who knows give me
a quick rundown as to what the status of Solaris on Sparc is? I'm
specifically looking to port a Linux shared library to solaris on
sparc.
Let's try and take this in several stages.
* SPARC on Linux works, although there is something- possibly an
alignment error- that causes Lazarus to fail (also affects at least some
ARM). Bug 0019109, but apart from that I'm running FPC/Lazarus-generated
code routinely on SPARC (Debian Etch/Lenny/Squeeze).
* FPC compiler targeting SPARC on Solaris works, together with much of
the RTL. Bug 0018271 contains working notes of where I had to adjust
paths etc.
* I've compiled much of the infrastructure required to support Lazarus
on SPARC/Solaris, but ground to a halt when it became apparent that many
of the fundamental libraries weren't available for v10 which is what I
was running.
* I'll have another shot at this when I've got time, and when the
situation with v11 has settled down. I'm not in a position to start
buying pukka copies so a lot depends on Oracle here, and what their
plans are for Solaris.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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