Re: [AD] Allegro 4.9 on OpenSolaris

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19-Dec-08, at 12:27 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote:
> Nice. I've fooled around with OpenSolaris a little bit. Could you
> document the packages you needed to install? Did you have to add any  
> new
> package authorities besides the ones that are provided?

Sure!
First of all though, I ran OpenSolaris under Parallels. It works, but  
you need to install a network driver for it off the Parallels utility  
CD image. The latest release, 2008.11, failed to mount the CD image  
and consequently I couldn't get it to install the network drivers. No  
network, no connection to the internet or even the host computer. The  
2008.5 release worked fine, however; that's what I used.
The most import thing to hunt for (as on Linux) are the X11 headers. I  
installed FSWxorg-headers. I also explicitly installed the SUNWhea  
package, which are the general header files. Make sure you have  
SUNWzlib, SUNWpng and SUNWogg-vorbis. I also installed SUNWxorg-mesa.
Then there are the usual tools: SUNWgcc, SUNWgccruntime, SUNWgmake.

With all of that in place (nothing too esoteric, but I did waste some  
time looking for variations of "x11-devel" in the package manager  
until I decided to google it), the thing that was missing was CMake. I  
couldn't be bothered iguring out how to add that to the package  
manager (there is a package for it, apparently), so I just grabbed the  
tar ball from cmake.org and did "./configure && make && make install".

The version of subversion that comes with OpenSolaris is too old, but  
I'm sure you can get a newer version (from source if necessary). I  
didn't bother and just rsynced the Allegro directory from the host  
computer.

I now realise that I actually don't have any sound in OpenSolaris (at  
all), I may have to try to get that working. As a result, also none of  
the examples using sound were compiled; so I didn't actually test those.

Evert