SPARC Solaris Support

[Kai Nacke]

Hi Joakim!

On Tuesday, 25 March 2014 at 08:21:37 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> 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.

I just installed OpenIndiana and started looking around. But 
everything is a bit outdated. (Some people would certainly prefer 
the term "stable" :-) )
gcc 4.4, cmake 2.6, python 2.6 - you can't build LLVM 3.5 with 
this toolset.
I'll try to bootstrap LLVM/clang 3.3. If this works then I can 
build LDC.

>>> 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.

The board runs fine. It works with  Android and Linux. I have it 
running with Gentoo linux. I choosed this board because of the 
RAM. You need at least 1GB RAM to built LLVM... LLVM has some 
support for the Qualcomm chip.

Regards,
Kai