[scilab-Users] Scilab 5 on Solaris

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le mardi 08 juillet 2008 à 19:05 -0300, Jonathan Blanchard a écrit :
> Thank you about that information I look forward to hearing about that
> fix. Also I assume you recommend compiling Scilab with Sun CC instead
> of gcc?
Niet, we are usually trying to use the compiler provided by the OS... It will probably work "better" with gcc because many people in the team is building Scilab under Linux
with gcc.

Sylvestre
PS: this discussion could be switch to dev at lists.scilab.org ;)

> Jonathan Blanchard
> BlanchardJ at ieee.org
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Sylvestre Ledru
> <sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org> wrote:
> > Hello Jonathan,
> >
> > Funny coincidence, I just tried this afternoon to build Scilab 5 under
> > Solaris X86.
> > All the code compiles fine under Solaris with the Sun compiler. I only
> > had to make a small change to link correctly with the fortran lib  (I
> > will try to send it to you tomorrow) and add a path in the
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH to use the Sun performance library for numerical
> > computing.
> >
> > After that, I haven't tested Scilab deeply under Solaris. You may find
> > many bugs. And we won't released an official version of Scilab 5.0 for
> > Solaris. Maybe 5.1.
> >
> > Sylvestre
> >
> >
> >> Hi all, is there any chance to get Scilab 5 working on Solaris(x86) or
> >> should I stop trying to built it now?
> >>
> >> Jonathan Blanchard
> >> BlanchardJ at ieee.org
> >
> >