Unappreciated, well-bestowed multi-core Niagara server, with great tracts of RAM, has just appeared on the doorstep seeking a love-fest of notable proportion. What she needs is *ahem* a D compiler to warm her dear little heart *cough*

Is there a GCC backend for Niagara that could be put to use? Does GDC support Solaris console apps? After all, it would be a cruel twist to turn this svelte creature over to the wrinkled hands of a JVM. What say you ~ rolicking adventurers? Can you help?

- Kris

[need threads and GC to get the ball rolling ~ no need for a full Phobos]

Kris wrote:
> Unappreciated, well-bestowed multi-core Niagara server, with great tracts of
> RAM, has just appeared on the doorstep seeking a love-fest of notable
> proportion. What she needs is *ahem* a D compiler to warm her dear little heart
> *cough*
> 
> Is there a GCC backend for Niagara that could be put to use? Does GDC support
> Solaris console apps? After all, it would be a cruel twist to turn this svelte
> creature over to the wrinkled hands of a JVM. What say you ~ rolicking
> adventurers? Can you help?

I'm interested as well, as I develop on SPARC at work.  To that end, GCC for SPARC was announced just a few days ago:

http://cooltools.sunsource.net/gcc/index.html

though I've done little more than skim the FAQ.  I wouldn't mind attempting an Ares port to Solaris, but I'd need to get GDC running first.  Are there any problems with installing GCC to a home directory as a user without root access?  And has anyone tried to build GDC on Solaris before?


Sean

Sean Kelly schrieb am 2006-03-10:
> Are there any problems with installing GCC to a home directory as a user without root access?

None, just remember to update your PATH.

> And has anyone tried to build GDC on Solaris before?

http://w148.de/~mmartin/d/

Thomas

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Kris wrote:
> 
>> Unappreciated, well-bestowed multi-core Niagara server, with great tracts of
>> RAM, has just appeared on the doorstep seeking a love-fest of notable
>> proportion. What she needs is *ahem* a D compiler to warm her dear little heart
>> *cough*
>>
>> Is there a GCC backend for Niagara that could be put to use? Does GDC support
>> Solaris console apps? After all, it would be a cruel twist to turn this svelte
>> creature over to the wrinkled hands of a JVM. What say you ~ rolicking
>> adventurers? Can you help?
> 
> 
> I'm interested as well, as I develop on SPARC at work.  To that end, GCC for SPARC was announced just a few days ago:
> 
> http://cooltools.sunsource.net/gcc/index.html
> 
> though I've done little more than skim the FAQ.  I wouldn't mind attempting an Ares port to Solaris, but I'd need to get GDC running first.  Are there any problems with installing GCC to a home directory as a user without root access?  And has anyone tried to build GDC on Solaris before?
> 
> 
> Sean

Great! Welcome to the party, Sean. We'll probably get the machine set up over the weekend, and then give you an account. Let's chat more when that's done ...

- Kris

Thomas Kuehne wrote:
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> Sean Kelly schrieb am 2006-03-10:
> 
>>Are there any problems with installing GCC to a home directory as a user without root access?
> 
> 
> None, just remember to update your PATH.
> 
> 
>>And has anyone tried to build GDC on Solaris before?
> 
> 
> http://w148.de/~mmartin/d/

Thanks for the link, Thomas. Do you happen to know how to get in touch with Mr Martin?

- Kris

kris schrieb am 2006-03-11:
> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>> Sean Kelly schrieb am 2006-03-10:
>>>And has anyone tried to build GDC on Solaris before?
>> 
>> 
>> http://w148.de/~mmartin/d/
>
> Thanks for the link, Thomas. Do you happen to know how to get in touch with Mr Martin?

Try marcel.martin xx uni-bielefeld.de or mmar xx freenet.de.

Thomas

Thomas Kuehne wrote:
> 
> Try ........

Thanks again;

- Kris

I have a working D compiler on a sun sparc ultra 60, using solaris 10,
gcc-3.3.2 and gdc-0.17 along with solaris/sparc patch from marcel
martin( at http://w148.de/~mmartin/d/gdc-0.17-sparc-solaris-patch - I
believe this was posted to this newsgroup 'round December 29-30 2005). If I
recall I also had to tweak the setup-gcc.sh script to use gpatch instead of
patch

Working with D has been on the  backburner since February, so I'm not sure how effective it is at using all things D on the 64 bit arch. However, I have written numerous "toy" console apps, which work with gdc0.17

I must give a thank you to David Friedman,Marcel Martin, et.al. for their work on getting gdc working on sparc 64 - let's hope gdc continues to evolve for use on the sparc arch.

Hope this helps

brad





Kris wrote:

> Unappreciated, well-bestowed multi-core Niagara server, with great tracts of RAM, has just appeared on the doorstep seeking a love-fest of notable proportion. What she needs is *ahem* a D compiler to warm her dear little heart *cough*
> 
> Is there a GCC backend for Niagara that could be put to use? Does GDC support Solaris console apps? After all, it would be a cruel twist to turn this svelte creature over to the wrinkled hands of a JVM. What say you ~ rolicking adventurers? Can you help?
> 
> - Kris
> 
> [need threads and GC to get the ball rolling ~ no need for a full Phobos]

In article <dusmnn$2ag4$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Sean Kelly says...
>
>
>I'm interested as well, as I develop on SPARC at work.  To that end, GCC for SPARC was announced just a few days ago:
>
>http://cooltools.sunsource.net/gcc/index.html
>

From recent rumblings at Sun is SPARC going the way of Alpha?

Marco wrote:
> In article <dusmnn$2ag4$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Sean Kelly says...
>>
>> I'm interested as well, as I develop on SPARC at work.  To that end, GCC for SPARC was announced just a few days ago:
>>
>> http://cooltools.sunsource.net/gcc/index.html
>>
> 
> From recent rumblings at Sun is SPARC going the way of Alpha?
> 

I wish they'd _replace_ SPARC with an Alpha manufactured with contemporary processes - now *that* would be something <g>