[Mono-dev] Mono 2.0 on Solaris//SPARC

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Congratulations!

Steffen Enni escribió:
> I've now managed to get this compiling, and my app is running just 
> fine on my Solaris 9/SPARC.
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> (1) Got pkg-get from Blastwave installed.  Followed this 
> http://www.blastwave.org/howto_S8.html
>
> (2) Set my mirror to the stable tree for Blastwave.
>
> (3) Used pkg-get -i to download and install:
>           wget gcc3 gmake gtar autoconf automake glib2
>
> (4) Added /opt/csw/bin to my path
>
> (5) Downloaded and built glib 2.18.2  (seems as glib and glib2 which 
> you can get from Blastwave doesn't include unsetenv/setenv).
> Instructions for glib is: 
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-building.html
>
> (6) Just copied the built libglib-2.0.so.0.1800.2 to the /opt/csw/lib 
> directory  (and made the similar links as the glib2 Blastwave package 
> had done).  [I probably should just have made a gmake install as root 
> instead.]
>
> (7) Installed the mono-1.2.4_4.sunos8.novell.sparc.pkg  (it went into 
> /opt/csw/ as default)
>
> (8) Untarred the mono-2.0.1 sources using gtar
>
> (9) Ran configure as
>
> MAKE=gmake CFLAGS="-g -O2" CC=/opt/csw/gcc3/bin/gcc ./configure 
> --prefix=/opt/csw --with-tls=pthread --with-includes=/opt/csw/
> include/ --with-libs=/opt/csw/lib/
>
> (10) Set ulimit using   ulimit -Hs 10124
>
> (11) gmake
>
> It failed during the compilation of System.Core.dll (and other dlls) 
> when compiling C# sources with an out of memory error.  I guess it is 
> because it is trying to compile too many source files in one 
> invocation of mcs.  Restarting gmake again a few times made it 
> possible build it all
>
> (12) su to root and add /opt/csw/bin:/usr/css/bin (for ranlib) to the path
>
> (13) as root do a gmake install
>
>
> Initially step 11 failed with a linker error in 
> mono-2.0.1/mono/metadata:  Saying that unsetenv/setenv was 
> unreferenced in ./.libs/libmonoruntime.a(icall.o).
>
> This went away when I managed to build glib 2.18.2. <http://2.18.2./>  
> Doing a nm on /opt/csw/lib/libglib-2.0.so <http://libglib-2.0.so/> 
> (which for the Blastwave glib2 package pointed to 
> libglib-2.0.so.0.1600.3) showed that it didn't contain the 
> unsetenv/setenv.  This is why I build libglib my self.
>
>
>
> It still feels a little quirky the compile of mono. I've done it once 
> more to correct a .NET Remoting error 
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=422491 that I'm dependent on.
>
>
>
> I've made a gzipped tarball with all mono related (including 
> libglib-2.0) that I can find in /opt/csw.  It is 26M.  If anybody is 
> interested I could make this available, but I haven't got any web 
> servers/ftp sites available.
>
>
> Anybody out there which know how I can package the binaries into the 
> pkg format?
>
> Is there some target in the mono distribution to make this happen 
> (gmake package?).
>
> Back in 1997-1999 I worked full time on Solaris and remember that it 
> was quite a pain to make packages from scratch, so I would like to 
> avoid doing this all over again.
>
>
> /Steffen Enni
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Stefan Mecke 
> <news.mecke at buchert-wf.de <mailto:news.mecke at buchert-wf.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Steffen Enni schrieb:
>
>         Is there anybody who have successfully build 2.0 on Solaris [9
>         or 10] / SPARC ?
>
>
>     yes, I did it few days ago. And I'm about to write some 'how I did
>     it' as soon as I find the time.
>
>
>         I've installed the Blastwave tools (gmake, gcc3, gtar,
>         glib2-2.16.3, autoconf, automake).  After running configure,
>         gmake fails in mono/metadata while linking.  It can't find
>         unsetenv/setenv. I'm stuck and really don't know how to proceed.
>
>
>     Looks similar to the problems I had.
>
>     One hint: make absolutely sure that every new shell has the
>     correct library paths in correct order. In my case, I had to set
>     LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib and uncomment every other
>     settings in .bashrc, .bash_profile and so on.
>     One try I thought I had luck with completely unsetting
>     LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I'm not sure whether that's correct. But it
>     may be worth a try too.
>
>
>         I'm also interested in knowing if anybody actually is using
>         mono on Solaris/SPARC?
>
>     We are. On Solaris 9 (SPARC).
>
>
>     Good luck
>     Stefan
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Venlig hilsen,
> Steffen Enni
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