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Stephen and OpenSolaris' Awesome Compiler Adventure

Well, once again it's come time for me to write another blog. I recently got a new desktop computer and decided to use OpenSolaris 2008.05 as my base OS. It was going fine, I had StarOffice installed, I got my hands on a JDK and probably most importantly, I had MP3 support set up. But then I needed a C compiler for some reason (I can't remember why now :/), at which point I realised: there was no C compiler installed by default (it's UNIX, is it too much to expect one to be included?). So, I pulled out a Solaris Express developer DVD (as I don't have access to a great deal of bandwidth at home). From here, I was able to track down the packages from the install, so I navigated to the directory

Leviathan%cd /media/SOL_11x86/whatever

Leviathan%pfexec pkgadd -d .

---List of a thousand freaking software packages---

Installing SUNWgcc

Installing SUNWmake

---Whatever else, I think I tried to install Firefox 3, but now it segfaults, so I'm assuming I missed a dependency or something---

Leviathan%

 Ok, I tried to run 'gcc -o hello helloworld.c', but it wasn't on my path. After some annoyed poking around I added it into my .zshrc file. Once again I tried to compile my hello world program, but was told I didn't have the libraries (>_<). So, I went and found the dependencies I needed (SUNWhea, SUNWtoo and SUNWms if you were wondering) on my Solaris Express DVD. Now I have a compiler and the make tools, though it would be nice to not have to go through that again >_<

Posted at 04:34AM Nov 16, 2008 by Stephen Gream in Personal  |  Comments[2]