Thank you for your response. I am finding OpenIndiana to be quite nice. I also don't mind using Sun Studio instead of Solaris Studio.
Where can I find sources for NetBeans, the compiler, and dbox?? debugger? If I can add those few features it's missing, then it would make it usable for me. Best regards, Rick C. Hodgin On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Nikolam <minik...@gmail.com> wrote: > You have to contact Oracle about Studio support. Oracle for some reason > boycott illumos and other Openindiana continuation distributions with their > binary releases and acts like only Linux and Oracle Solaris (closed source > kernel) exists. > > On the other hand, open source parts of oracle Solaris that have source > available are used to make Openindiana with illumos kernel pats, so beside > other contributions and port is what Openindiana is. > Don't count on compatibility between OI and Solaris in the future, they > share previous code but Oracle went their way for releases and that > includes Studio that since recently is not normally used to build binaries > on both illumos distros and OI. > Last OI that has some connection with Opensolaris for Studio use and was > built with Studio was Openindiana /dev releases but /hipster releases with > more current software are build and use GCC. > > Solaris Studio is made of NetBeans, with addition of studio compiler. One > can use Netbeans (.JAR for Solaris and platform independent since 8.0) with > addition of GCC for similar development environment. Last netbeans I was > able to run on OI wan 7.4 or something, whereas 8.0 does not run on OI > because I suppose Oracle again, only thinks about Solaris closed. > Maybe you could take NetBeans source and compile it for OI, there is always > space for inclusion of packaged binaries in OI /hipster repositories. > > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c.hod...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c.hod...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi. I'm new to Solaris and OpenIndiana. I heard about it on the > > > comp.lang.c group because I was told SunStudio and later had a > > > fix-and-continue compiler. I was able to download OpenIndiana from the > > > link below, and install Sun Studio through the package manager. It > works > > > great, but I'm finding some limitations in using it as a developer > tool. > > > > > > I was hoping someone could help me setup Solaris Studio 12.4. When I > > went > > > through adding the publishers, and tried to add it through the package > > > manager, I get lots of errors regarding packages that should come from > > > solaris which instead come from openindiana. > > > > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > > > In the alternative, if anybody has experience with development on the > Sun > > > Studio debugger and can help point me in the right direction, I'd like > to > > > add the "Continue at" feature, also "Set next statement", as well as > > figure > > > out a way to get a read/write Registers window. > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > Oops! The download link I used: > > > > http://openindiana.org/download/ > > http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/151a8/oi-dev-151a8-live-x86.iso > > > > I was considering download hipster, but I saw the warning about it being > > unstable. > > > > Best regards, > > Rick C. Hodgin > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
