Does LDC have sparc solaris backend support?

I'm trying to make my company use D and we have a bunch of legacy
machines that unfortunately run on sparc-solaris 2.10.

/Per

Hi Per!

On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 09:39:10 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> Does LDC have sparc solaris backend support?
>
> I'm trying to make my company use D and we have a bunch of legacy
> machines that unfortunately run on sparc-solaris 2.10.
>
> /Per

LLVM can generate code for sparc-v8/v9. I don't know how good this support is. I also think there is no dedicated support in druntime. You have to simply try it.

One of the problems here is that it is not easy to get access to a sparc-solaris machine, otherwise I would already have done it.

Regards,
Kai

On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 12:11:44 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi Per!
>
> On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 09:39:10 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>> Does LDC have sparc solaris backend support?
>>
>> I'm trying to make my company use D and we have a bunch of legacy
>> machines that unfortunately run on sparc-solaris 2.10.
>>
>> /Per
>
> LLVM can generate code for sparc-v8/v9. I don't know how good this support is. I also think there is no dedicated support in druntime. You have to simply try it.
>
> One of the problems here is that it is not easy to get access to a sparc-solaris machine, otherwise I would already have done it.
Nowadays, you can rent out all kinds of exotic hardware online.  Googling for "sparc zone vps," I get two results, although the second one doesn't give much RAM for the developer plan:

http://www.thoughtwave.com/index.php/services/solaris/solaris-sparc-zones
http://www.net5.com.au/hosting/zones

If Per wants to use ldc and can't give you access to his company's machines, maybe he can rent out one of those zones and give you access and a bounty for a sparc port.  Alex already put in a fair amount of Solaris/x86 support into dmd and druntime.

Now if I could only find an ARM vps... ;)

>> One of the problems here is that it is not easy to get access to a sparc-solaris machine, otherwise I would already have done it.
> Nowadays, you can rent out all kinds of exotic hardware online.
>  Googling for "sparc zone vps," I get two results, although the second one doesn't give much RAM for the developer plan:

Unfortunately I don't see any way in the near future to rent out our company machines.

If I were running my own business I would hand it to you directly...but "our" IT organization is *very* beuraucratic.

Thanks for all the good answers anyway,
Per

On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 21:18:49 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>>> One of the problems here is that it is not easy to get access to a sparc-solaris machine, otherwise I would already have done it.
>> Nowadays, you can rent out all kinds of exotic hardware online.
>> Googling for "sparc zone vps," I get two results, although the second one doesn't give much RAM for the developer plan:
>
> Unfortunately I don't see any way in the near future to rent out our company machines.
>
> If I were running my own business I would hand it to you directly...but "our" IT organization is *very* beuraucratic.
>
> Thanks for all the good answers anyway,
> Per
I think you misunderstand my suggestion.  For $45, you could rent out a zone at that first link for a month and give Kai access to it.  That way, you don't give someone outside the company access to your machines.  Sometimes the host will offer free access for open source projects, as that will mean more software developed for their platform.  As for what kind of bounty it'd take for Kai to work on a port, you'd have to ask him. :)

On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 20:38:10 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> Now if I could only find an ARM vps... ;)

Not VPS, but dedicated:

http://www.nx-box.net/en/cubiebox

http://www.mininodes.com/product/single-mininodes/

> I think you misunderstand my suggestion.  For $45, you could rent out a zone at that first link for a month and give Kai access to it.  That way, you don't give someone outside the company access to your machines.  Sometimes the host will offer free access for open source projects, as that will mean more software developed for their platform.  As for what kind of bounty it'd take for Kai to work on a port, you'd have to ask him. :)

Ok. Got it.

Thx,
Per

On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 21:41:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 20:38:10 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Now if I could only find an ARM vps... ;)
>
> Not VPS, but dedicated:
>
> http://www.nx-box.net/en/cubiebox
>
> http://www.mininodes.com/product/single-mininodes/

Oh cool, thanks for the links. :) Looks like I was using the wrong keywords on google to search for an ARM-based shell account, although it looks like miniNodes just launched a couple weeks back.  I don't know why nx-box requires a 1-year commitment.  miniNodes looks promising, will have to consider them.

Hi Joakim!

On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 20:38:10 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> Alex already put in a fair amount of Solaris/x86 support into dmd and druntime.

Good to hear! I installed OpenSolaris now. Let's see if I can get LDC running on it.

> Now if I could only find an ARM vps... ;)

For ARM development I bought a singleboard computer:
http://www.inforcecomputing.com/product/moreinfo/ifc6410.html

Regards,
Kai

On Tuesday, 25 March 2014 at 06:23:33 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi Joakim!
>
> On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 20:38:10 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Alex already put in a fair amount of Solaris/x86 support into dmd and druntime.
>
> Good to hear! I installed OpenSolaris now. Let's see if I can get LDC running on it.

What compiler do you plan on using to build ldc?  I had some experience porting to Solaris/x86 years ago and I had some problems with the compilers available, until I found a gcc and configuration that worked right.  Maybe that's not as much of a problem these days, now that OpenIndiana and other open-source builds have progressed further.

>> Now if I could only find an ARM vps... ;)
>
> For ARM development I bought a singleboard computer:
> http://www.inforcecomputing.com/product/moreinfo/ifc6410.html

That looks like a nice board, though I wonder how well it works with a Qualcomm chip, which I think are notorious for being pretty closed.  I bought a Pandaboard ES a couple years back, but had to leave it at a friend's place when I moved.  Maybe I'll get him to send it to me eventually.