Re: Objective C runtime on Solaris 9

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Santos wrote:
> I want to build GNUStep on a Solaris 9 machine. I have installed gcc and 
> libgcc packages from the sunfkeeware site archive.
> On ./configure it says there is no ObjectiveC runtime installed.
> How can I get this to build ?
well gcc and libgcc are C, you need libobjc. Sunfreeware is very old, I
don't use it since ages - I did start working on GNUstep exactly on it!
BUt since then I migrated those old computers to NetBSD.

Solaris support is tricky, it has only older versions of gcc, but it
does work - we luckily still support it! I stand for that!

I haven't announced it public because I forgot to, but I made the
current versions of GNUstep for Solaris, with OpenCSW. SOlaris 10 and 11
wre complete, Solaris 9 has major packages with some limitations, due to
OpenSSL issues and Cairo issues, so it is compiled with xlib and some
packages are missing, but enough to play around and run "server apps"
and developer tools as some basic Desktop.

Riccardo