[Quickfix-developers] Build problems on Solaris

[Bishop, B. <Bar...@gs...>]

Hi,

I've been developing an application using quickfix 1.3.2 and java running on
solaris. I never managed to get the build working correctly and resorted to
compiling every source file and linking them into one huge shared object
library.

Everything seemed to be fine all the way through development and testing
until the application was released in to production whereupon it failed
after a few seconds with a 'Problem has occured in a thread outside the
JVM...' error.

The production machine is a very fast dual processor sun box and the
application failed on the initial download of SecurityStatus messages which
proceeds very quickly until the crash.

Is there a known problem using quickfix on a multi-processor machine?

I noticed that quickfix 1.4.0 contains a fix for a 'race condition' and so
decided to give it a go.

However, even though I managed to get configure to work (without the libxml
test) the build still doesn't give me a working shared object library. It
warns me when linking libquickfix_jni.so that it has not linked to
libquickfix as a shared version is not available. Is it possible to make a
shared version of this library?

Sure enough, the library fails to load in to the JVM.

I've resorted to using my old build script which worked with quickfix 1.3.2,
but this leads relocation errors at load time (__eh_alloc or
__builtin_vec_new or others depending on my tweaks to my build script).

I'm pretty desperate now as I've missed a deadline and I have no idea how to
get a working library built.

I'm not interested in keeping the binaries small or even efficiency. If
someone could tell me a simple way to build one gigantic binary linked with
everything I'll need I would be most grateful. Surely it can't be that
difficult. Ultimately, all we have are two directories of C++ source files
that need to be compiled and linked.

I've included both my scripts for building the two versions of quickfix I
have.

Many beers are available for the person who can help. :-)

Regards,
barry



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This is the script I used to build 1.4.0
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#!/bin/ksh
gcc=/opt/gnu/bin/gcc


# INCLUDE
JSEI=/opt/JDK-1.3/j2se/include
JSES=/opt/JDK-1.3/j2se/include/solaris

GCC1=/opt/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.95/2/include
GCC2=/opt/gnu/include/g++-3

QUICKFIX_I1=~
QUICKFIX_I2=~/quickfix
QUICKFIX_I3=~/quickfix/src/C++

LIBXML_I=/home/bishoba/libxml2-2.4.25/include

# LIBS
QUICKFIX_L=~/quickfix/lib


LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$QUICKFIX_L

LIBS='-lsocket -lnsl -lthread -lelf'
MORELIBS='-lquickfix -lxml2'


gcc -save-temps -G -o libquickfix_jni.so -fexceptions -finline-functions
../java/*.cpp ../C++/*.cpp    -lgcc -lstdc++ -lpthread -lxml2 -liberty -lz
-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -lnsl -I$JSEI -I$JSES -I$GCC1 -I$GCC2 -I$QUICKFIX_I1
-I$QUICKFIX_I2 -I$QUICKFIX_I3 -I$LIBXML_I -I../../.. -I../../../include -I
/home/bishoba  -L/opt/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.95.2/  -lsocket




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This is the script I used to build 1.3.2
*********************************************************
#!/bin/ksh
gcc=/opt/gnu/bin/gcc


# INCLUDE
JSEI=/opt/JDK-1.3/j2se/include
JSES=/opt/JDK-1.3/j2se/include/solaris

GCC1=/opt/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.95/2/include
GCC2=/opt/gnu/include/g++-3

QUICKFIX_I1=~
QUICKFIX_I2=~/quickfix
QUICKFIX_I3=~/quickfix/src/C++

LIBXML_I=/home/bishoba/libxml2-2.4.25/include

# LIBS
LIBS='-lsocket -lnsl -lthread -lelf'
MORELIBS='-lquickfix -lxml2'


gcc -G -o libquickfix_jni.so -fexceptions -finline-functions  ../C++/*.cpp
../java/*.cpp -lgcc -lstdc++ -lpthread -lxml2 -liberty -lz
-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -lnsl -I$JSEI -I$JSES -I$GCC1 -I$GCC2 -I$QUICKFIX_I1
-I$QUICKFIX_I2 -I$QUICKFIX_I3 -I$LIBXML_I -I../../.. -I../../../include -I
/home/bishoba  -L/opt/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.95.2/  -lsocket