Only the libstdcxx runtime libraries would be needed to use the application, and they will be part of Solaris. You would not need access to a Sun Studio installation to run the application.
More generally: - Sun Studio is free, just like Solaris. You can use it at no cost to create applications that you then sell. (Support is not free.) - Some runtime libraries that might be used by an application built with Sun Studio are not installed with Solaris. Those libraries are freely distributable with the application. Example: Sun Studio includes a garbage-collecting library, libgc. If you choose to use it as part of an application, you can freely distribute libgc with your application. In short, building an application with Sun Studio never requires that application users have access to Sun Studio. --- Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage at sun.com On 09/04/08 10:40, Gary Winiger wrote: >> The short version of my position is that the Apache headers and runtime >> libraries should not be part of an ON consolidation, but should be >> provided by the Sun Studio compiler team. The headers should be part of >> the compiler, not installed in /usr/include, and the runtime libraries >> should be delivered into Solaris by the Sun Studio team just as other >> C++ runtime libraries are currently delivered. > > My understanding is that such things as KDE depend on this library. > If correct, is the proposal that Sun Studio needs to be > purchased/installed in order to run KDE? > > Gary.. >> The C++ compiler team already has plans to do what I suggest, but we >> were planning to do it in a future compiler release. We could move more >> quickly, if necessary. >> >> --- >> Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage at sun.com >>
