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 maybe

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

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, or

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 to be

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

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 att, and is it seperate ASM files or is it embedded inline in .c ? So the biggest