Re: Building on Solaris?

[Stephen Dzurenko <dzurenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Lim wrote:

On Thu Aug 17 12:20:21 2000, dzurenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is anyone attempting to build Open Inventor on Solaris?
> I am.  But it's going a little slowly for me.  I was just wondering
> if anyone else is fighting this battle?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Steve

Can you be specific about where it's compiling slowly?

Oh... I'm not saying that the compilation itself is going slowly.
I'm saying that my SUCCESS in getting anything to compile is
going slowly :)
> Everywhere or isolated
> to one particular component?
Well, running gmake right off the bat fails.  ld complains about
invalid arguments and simply fails on the first source file in the
compile, ppp.c++.

I've scrolled through all of the files in inventor/make and noted
the system-specific sections (i.e., IRIX/Linux).  I am now attempting
to update these files (commondefs, commonivdefs, system,
commonivrules, and startversion) and include Solaris-specific
stuff.

But I'm really not smart enough to be doing this.  I'm one of those
engineering types that just expects make and compilers to work.
I know the difference between -O and -g, but beyond that, my
head starts spinning :(

So things are going slowly because I'm trying to figure out what
everything in the inventor/make files do and what are the correct
values for Solaris.

> By the way, the requisite font library provided,
> libFL.a, is only for Linux IA32 systems.
Hm.  Since libFL.a is a requisite, am I wasting my time trying
to compile this release of Open Inventor on Solaris??

Obviously, Open Inventer exists on Solaris.  We have used
TGS's implementation here.  How did they get around libFL.a?
Did they write their own?

Thanks for the help!

-Steve

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Stephen Dzurenko
Research Engineer / Scientist Associate

Advanced Sonar Division / Advanced Technology Laboratory

Applied Research Laboratories
The University of Texas at Austin
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