Quick question: http://freepascal.org says:

"It is available for different processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86_64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, Sparc, ARM."
"The following operating systems are supported: Linux, FreeBSD, Haiku, Mac OS X/Darwin, DOS, Win32, Win64, WinCE, OS/2, Netware (libc and classic) and MorphOS."

Then, lower, it lists:

"Sparc architecture - 16 MB of RAM is required. Runs on any Sparc Linux installation (solaris is experimental)."

Most of the references to Sparc/Solaris that I'm finding on the mailing list and whatnot are quite old. Can someone who knows give me a quick rundown as to what the status of Solaris on Sparc is? I'm specifically looking to port a Linux shared library to solaris on sparc.

Thanks,

-SG

Let's try and take this in several stages.

* SPARC on Linux works, although there is something- possibly an alignment error- that causes Lazarus to fail (also affects at least some ARM). Bug 0019109, but apart from that I'm running FPC/Lazarus-generated code routinely on SPARC (Debian Etch/Lenny/Squeeze).

* FPC compiler targeting SPARC on Solaris works, together with much of the RTL. Bug 0018271 contains working notes of where I had to adjust paths etc.

* I've compiled much of the infrastructure required to support Lazarus on SPARC/Solaris, but ground to a halt when it became apparent that many of the fundamental libraries weren't available for v10 which is what I was running.

* I'll have another shot at this when I've got time, and when the situation with v11 has settled down. I'm not in a position to start buying pukka copies so a lot depends on Oracle here, and what their plans are for Solaris.

Seth Grover wrote

Most of the references to Sparc/Solaris that I'm finding on the mailing list and whatnot are quite old. Can someone who knows give me a quick rundown as to what the status of Solaris on Sparc is?

In general it works fairly well. The only problem currently is that fpmake is broken on that platform (so "make all" in svn trunk doesn't work anymore), and the people working on fpmake don't have access to a Solaris/SPARC machine. Maybe Pierre will look into it. In general, Solaris/SPARC is not actively supported (we only try not to break what works), although Pierre has worked quite a bit on it the past year.

I'm specifically looking to port a Linux shared library to solaris on sparc.

Dynamic libraries work on it in svn trunk.

Jonas

I can make a slow v8 available at a pinch. I've got a much faster v10 here but an extremely reluctant to leave it running due to environmental issues (noise, power, heat); I'm always happy to test code provided that somebody can give me an "idiot's guide" of what I should be doing.

I worked indeed on Solaris for a moment, but mainly on i386/x86_64 support..

Anyhow, I have no access to any Sparc Solaris
anymore, thus I can't help much here.

Pierre

Mark, Jonas, and Pierre, thanks for your responses. I'll give it a shot and see how it goes.

-SG

Some asked my to place a link to the Oberon day videos recorded last month in Zürich.

For example Professor Wirth was there presenting its original 25 years old still running CERES-3 computer.

Also there have been very intersting discussions.

<http://www.multimedia.ethz.ch/conferences/2011/oberon>

Another private video is there:

<http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDUQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHoZuzE7Lq5E&ei=LVAMTvHlL8nMtAaK7JjWDg&usg=AFQjCNH8IqQ6XmTRf1xgEDO0MhLb0zNzKQ&sig2=BTEC0ZPEueDm7FVacnw8Pg>

Regards

Markus Greim

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