Re: Mersenne: mprime for Solaris x86 ?

2001-11-04 Thread Gareth Randall
George Woltman wrote: > Just grab the source at http://www.mersenne.org/source.htm and see if it > compiles and links. You will not compile the ASM stuff - both ELF and COFF > style object files are provided for the ASM code. Er, my Solaris x86 machine just expired (suspect failed PSU), so mayb

Re: Mersenne: mprime for Solaris x86 ?

2001-11-03 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 01:49 AM 11/3/2001 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: >I'm quite inclined to suspect that mprime would just compile right over for >Solaris.I don't know how the assembly is handled (is it intel syntax, or >at&t, and is it seperate ASM files or is it embedded inline in .c ? > >So the biggest p

Re: Mersenne: mprime for Solaris x86 ?

2001-11-03 Thread Michael Vang
I have gcc and 10 days left on the newest Forte demo... If someone needs access to this box to compile mprime (or anything else...) I can arrange access to it... I assume (Here we go...) that it is possible to compile target executables for x86 Solaris on my SPARC Solaris box... See http://www,tea

Re: Mersenne: mprime for Solaris x86 ?

2001-11-03 Thread Lars Lindley
> So the biggest problem might be finding the right compilers to get > it to compile.  once its compiling, all the IO and stuff is > standard posix unix, it should play on solaris just fine.   I > believe the gnu c compiler (egcs/gcc) is available for > solaris/x86. Every Linux app is suppposed t

Re: Mersenne: mprime for Solaris x86 ?

2001-11-03 Thread John R Pierce
> I have to do some work with Solaris 8 on x86 (i.e. Intel > processors), and was wondering if anyone felt inclined to > port mprime to this OS. I'm quite inclined to suspect that mprime would just compile right over for Solaris.I don't know how the assembly is handled (is it intel syntax, o

Mersenne: mprime for Solaris x86 ?

2001-11-03 Thread Gareth Randall
Dear All, I have to do some work with Solaris 8 on x86 (i.e. Intel processors), and was wondering if anyone felt inclined to port mprime to this OS. Now I know that most ports actually take a long time and are not worth it unless there's a significant target user base, but I'm not suggesting t