Lazarus on Solaris

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This howto explains the steps to get Lazarus svn and FPC svn up and running starting from a clean Solaris 10 system on either x86 or SPARC. It assumes that you have already used svn (Subversion) and have built FPC and Lazarus from source before.

There are older notes referring only to the FPC compiler and Solaris 7 at Solaris Port. While the FPC compiler will run on Solaris 8 with a little bit of library fiddling, it's unlikely that Lazarus will run on it due to missing prerequisite libraries.

Install the FPC Compiler Solaris Binaries

For x86:

Get and install fpc 2.4.4 from ftp://193.224.143.39/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.4/i386-solaris/fpc-2.4.4.i386-solaris.tar.gz and the install script ftp://193.224.143.39/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.4/i386-solaris/install.sh.

For SPARC:

The most recent version available as binaries is 2.4.2, which can be downloaded from ftp://193.224.143.39/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.2/sparc-solaris/fpc-2.4.2.sparc-solaris.tar.gz. There is an install script corresponding to this version at ftp://193.224.143.39/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.2/sparc-solaris/install.sh, but see http://62.166.198.202/view.php?id=18271 for patches that might be needed; there might be a more recent version of this script with the trunk sources available via Subversion.

In either case it is probably worth making sure that the binaries are no more than one release behind the svn trunk. At the time of writing (July '11) trunk is 2.4.5, so while the x86 binaries at 2.4.4 are OK it might be advisable to get, build and install the 2.4.4 release for SPARC before proceeding any further.

Install Required Libraries

There is an extensive freeware library containing GNU utilities and libraries at http://sunfreeware.com/. Note that these are initially downloaded using a web browser rather than by a graphical package or update manager, so don't waste time hunting for one on your system. Refer to http://www.sunfreeware.com/download.html for general instructions.

SPARC stuff to be continued

Install following packages from http://sunfreeware.com/. These are the versions at the time of writing (7/2011). This is a long list because gnu binutils, make, subversion (with a lot of dependencies) and gtk2 are pulled in:

apache-2.2.19
atk-1.18.0
binutils-2.21.1
cairo-1.4.10
coreutils-8.11
expat-2.0.1
fontconfig-2.8.0
freetype-2.4.2
gcc-3.4.6
gdb-6.8
glib-2.25.13
gtk+-2.12.0
jpeg-8a
libiconv-1.13.1
libintl-3.4.0
make-3.82
ncurses-5.7
neon-0.29.5
openldap-2.4.24
openssl-1.0.0d
pango-1.18.2
render-0.8-sol10-intel-local
renderproto-0.9.3
sasl-2.1.21
subversion-1.6.12
tiff-3.9.4
xft-2.1.2-sol10-intel-local
xrender-0.8.3-sol10-intel-local
zlib-1.2.5

These versions are all available for SPARC.

Adapt your PATH variable to get the gnu version of the binutils:

$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Check your GTK2 installation:

$ gtk-demo


gld

Gnu ld creates binaries that are not completely solaris abi compatible. malloc (libc) for example always returns a null pointer. FPC uses the solaris linker by using the -Xn compiler option (not documented). Solaris ld is in /usr/css/bin and gnu binutils has installed the link /usr/bin/ld :

# rm /usr/bin/ld

# ln -s /usr/css/bin/ld /usr/bin/ld

Note that you need to specify the -Xn compiler option for all your fpc and lazarus programs. Lazarus programs linked without -Xn crash with the message GLib-ERROR ... Failed to allocate 42 bytes... core dump.

Get and Build Sources

$ svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk fpc

$ cd fpc

$ make clean all OPT="-Xn"

$ su

# make install INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

/etc/fpc.cfg installed with 2.4.4 is fine for your new 2.5.1 installation.

$ svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk lazarus

$ cd lazarus

$ make clean all OPT="-Xn -k-L/usr/local/lib" FPC=/usr/lib/fpc/2.5.1/ppc386

Solaris 11 Express

Dependencies

Depending on the installation media, gnome is already installed or can easily be installed by installing the slim_install package. subversion and gnu-binutils can be installed from the solaris repository with "pkg install" or the graphical Package Manager.

gld

solaris ld is already installed in /usr/bin. The use of -Xn is still mandatory.