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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There is no functional C compiler in Solaris. (There exists one that is exactly adequate for relinking the kernel, and that’s it.)<o:p></o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>To get Sun’s C compiler, you need PWB – Programmer’s WorkBench. I think it has a new name… yup, “Solaris Studio”, and you no longer have to pay for it. It’s a lot more than just a command-line compiler.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Or just download gcc from </span><a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>www.sunfreeware.com</span></a><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>, which you’ll probably have to do anyway since most open-source software Makefiles aren’t happy with Sun’s compiler. Note, see </span><a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/faq.html#q4"><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://www.sunfreeware.com/faq.html#q4</span></a><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If you have the Solaris Companion CD/DVD that came with some versions of Solaris, gcc may be on the disc, probably in a package called SFWgcc. The Sun Freeware Collection and associated webpages appear to have died a typical Oracle death since the acquisition, so I can’t tell if it even exists for Solaris 10 or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Most people wind up installing the sunfreeware.com packages, AFAIK… they stay somewhat up to date, whereas the SFW* packages on the Sun CD are static and typically don’t get updated until the next major release of Solaris.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>-Adam Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> </span><a href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>athompso@athompso.net</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kevin McGregor<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 09, 2011 15:03<br><b>To:</b> MUUG Roundtable<br><b>Subject:</b> [RndTbl] Compiling (C) software for Solaris 10<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>At work here I have a "SunOS cowsvpsunfire 5.10 Generic_142909-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490" (from uname -a) with the "sol_10_910_sparc" disc mounted. This system appears to have no "cc" or "gcc" (according to "which"). Which package(s) from the CD do I need to install to have a basic C command-line compiler available? I'm trying to compile Iozone (<a href="http://iozone.org">iozone.org</a>), and the makefile run says "sh: cc: not found". <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>