Re: Building Xvfb on Sparc running Solaris 8

[Robert Milaszewski <rmilas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I rebuild XFree86 v 4.6.0 using gcc v3.4.5
Xvfb built but I do not see glx extensions
included in it.
What am I doing wrong?

thanks,
RobertM

Marc Aurele La France wrote:

> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Robert Milaszewski wrote:
>
> > Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 9 May 2006, Robert Milaszewski wrote:
>
> > > > I tried building Xvfb on Solaris 8 running on sparc using
> > > > nativ sun's compiler.  I can successfully build the server
> > > > without glx extensions.  Problems start when I try to include
> > > > glx extensions by  adding this line to host.def :
>
> > > > #define BuildGlxExt             YES
>
> > > > And even when eventually I manage to compile Xvfb executable
> > > > glx extensions do not seem to be present as reported by glxinfo.
>
> > > > Any help would be greately appreciated.
>
> > > I've verified that this works in XFree86 4.6.0, given its rework of 
> > > extension support in the various X servers.  But, for now, you will 
> > > still need to build with a host.def containing ...
>
> > >     #define BuildXFree86OnSparcSunOS YES
>
> > Thanks for your help.  I got XFree86 v. 4.6.0
> > I set the following defines in host.def
>
>
> > #define XVirtualFramebufferServer      YES
> > #define BuildXFree86OnSparcSunOS YES
> > #define BuildGlxExt             YES
>
>
> > And I used Sun C 5.7
> >                Sun C++ 5.7
> > compilers.
>
>
> > I had problems compiling with this setup.
> > I also tried compiling XFree86 v 4.6.0 using
> > gnu's gcc v 2.95.2 but that did not work either.
> > Can you give me more detailes on how you
> > compiled Xvfb with glx extensions on Sparc
> > with SunOS 5.8?
>
>
> I'm actually using Solaris 7, but that shouldn't matter too much.
>
> GCC 2.95.2 is quite old.  I recommend 3.2 or newer.  I'm currently 
> using 4.0.1.
>
> Your host.def settings above should give you something that compiles & 
> runs right out of the box.
>
> Marc.
>
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