Re: [Quickfix-developers] Build Quickfix with Sun SPRO compiler 6.2 or 8.0

[Caleb E. <cal...@gm...>]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:21:22 -0500, Oren Miller <or...@qu...> wrote:
> As for the AR_FLAGS, I would expect that autoconf would be doing that
> work in the AC_PROG_CXX macro.  What version are you using?  Maybe a

I'm not using autoconf at all, just the supplied configure script that
comes with QuickFIX.

> newer version will handle this.  Can you put together a little blurb
> about what you did to get these setting in so I can add it to the
> documentation?

Basically with the SunPRO compilers, you can't use "ar" or "ld" to
build static or shared libraries of C++ code, because these don't pull
in all of the template instantiations.  You need to use the C++
compiler (CC) with the flag -xar (static lib) or -G (shared).

The -xs flag allows for debugging without having the .o files still
lying around, and is optional.  If you choose to not use the -g flag,
you shouldn't specify -xs either.

Kristofer's original email to the list that included a patch against
1.7.1 has this all spelled out (the paths to various things are
system-specific; my C++ compiler lives in /opt not /usr/local):

---8<---
BUILD INSTRUCTIONS

- untar quickfix-1.7.1.tar.gz
- convert the eight files above to Unix test format (strip CRs with dos2unix)
- apply the unified patch below (you'll need GNU patch)
- export the following environment variables, editing for compiler and
  java location where appropriate)
      CC=/usr/local/SUNWspro/WS6U2/bin/CC
  CFLAGS=-g -xs
     CXX=/usr/local/SUNWspro/WS6U2/bin/CC
CXXFLAGS=-g -xs
      LD=/usr/local/SUNWspro/WS6U2/bin/CC
 LDFLAGS=-g -xs -lCstd
      AR=/usr/local/SUNWspro/WS6U2/bin/CC
AR_FLAGS=-g -xs -xar -o
JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java1.4.2
    PATH=$JAVA_HOME:$PATH
- run configure
- make
---8<---

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Caleb Epstein
cal...@gm...