Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of Solaris build instructions

Timestamp:

Oct 22, 2007 3:12:41 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

bird

Comment:

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Solaris build instructions

@@ -8 +8 @@
 You need: 
 
- * Solaris Nevada build 70 or later. It will probably work with earlier builds and Solaris 10, but we haven't tried that yet.
+ * Solaris Nevada build 70 and Solaris Developer Express 07/09 are the oldest versions VirtualBox can be expected to build on. Build 75 or later is strongly recommended.
 
  * '''GCC 3.4.3.''' It will probably work with 3.4.6 or even 4.x.y, but 3.4.3 is the one we've tried and which problems we have work around.
@@ -16 +16 @@
  * '''bcc''' (Bruce Evans C Compiler). This ships with the Solaris builds we're using.
 
- * '''IASL''' (Intel ACPI compiler). Doesn't this ship too? 
+ * '''IASL''' (Intel ACPI compiler). Checked into the source tree.
 
  * '''xsltproc''' (libxslt, XML style sheet processor). Ships with the Solaris builds we're using.
@@ -26 +26 @@
  * '''libXcursor''' (required to support color mouse pointers in guest). Included with Solaris staring with build 74. For earlier builds, you'll have to built it yourself. [[br]] The source: http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/lib/libXcursor-1.1.9.tar.bz2
 
- * '''Qt 3.3.x''' (with x >= 5 if possible). You'll have to build this yourself. TODO: provide configuration. [[br]] Make sure QTDIR is defined and that the libraries are in the {{{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}} environment variable. [[br]] The sources: ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-x11-free-3.3.8.tar.bz2
+ * '''Qt 3.3.x''' (with x >= 5 if possible). You'll have to build this yourself. [[br]] Make sure QTDIR is defined and that the libraries are in the {{{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}} environment variable. [[br]] The sources: ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-x11-free-3.3.8.tar.bz2 [[br]] Configure example (the {{{-I}}} arguments are for working around headers in odd locations): 
+{{{ 
+./configure -v -platform solaris-g++-64 -thread -shared -stl -largefile -tablet -sm -disable-sql \
+    -qt-imgfmt-jpeg -qt-imgfmt-png -qt-imgfmt-mng -qt-libjpeg -qt-libpng -qt-libmng -qt-zlib \
+    -prefix /opt/vboxose-qt \
+    -I/usr/include \
+    -I/usr/X11/include \
+    -I/usr/X11/share/include \
+    -I/usr/sfw/include
+}}}
 
  * '''libIDL'''. This ships with the Solaris builds we're using.
@@ -39 +48 @@
       * {{{$QTDIR/bin}}} - for Qt.
 
-The xerces and xalan sources we together with the appropriate kBuild makefiles can be found here: http://virtualbox.org/download/testcase/xerces-and-xalan-vbox-src.tar.bz2
-Untar them into the VirtualBox trunk directory.
+The xerces and xalan sources we use together with the appropriate kBuild makefiles can be found here: http://virtualbox.org/download/testcase/xerces-and-xalan-vbox-src.tar.bz2
+Untar them into the VirtualBox trunk directory. Add {{{--build-xalan}}} as argument to {{{configure}}} if using these sources.