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BRL-CAD on Solaris README
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In recent years, there have been a variety of Solaris-style operating
systems that have appeared, following Sun's open-source release of
OpenSolaris.  OpenSolaris itself doesn't seem to be especially active, but
another derivative system called OpenIndiana has appeared, based on the
illumos kernel - the Solaris file will be the place to add any notes
needed to build on such derivative systems, as well as Solaris proper.

Kitware does not provide a pre-compiled binary for CMake on Solaris
type systems.  To bootstrap from the source code, try the following:

(You probably want to use gmake and gcc/g++ for this...)

1.  Download the source from http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
2.  unzip the tarball: gunzip cmake-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
3.  open the tarball: tar -xvf cmake-X.Y.Z.tar
4.  cd cmake-X.Y.Z
5.  CXX=g++ ./bootstrap -prefix=/home/user/cmake-install (or your preferred directory)
6.  gmake
7.  gmake install

Then (if you installed to somewhere other than a system dir) add the
bin directory to your path:

csh:  setenv PATH /home/user/cmake-install/bin:$PATH
bash: export PATH=/home/user/cmake-install/bin:$PATH

From there, you should be good to build BRL-CAD.  The most recent tests
of the Sun Studio compiler suggest that there are issues to resolve,
so (unless you want to fix those issues, which would be welcome!) you
probably want to use the GCC compiler suite to build BRL-CAD as well:

CC=gcc CXX=g++ cmake ../brlcad

If while compiling you encounter an error "Text relocation remains
against symbol" along with some number of lines following, it usually
means that the build has attempted to link a static system library
into a shared library being compiled (e.g. attempting to link a system
libz.a into the png library distributed in src/other/libpng being
compiled as libpng.so).  If this happens, it likely indicates a problem
with the CMake build logic and should be reported as a bug - you may also
need to install a shared version of the library.  Another possibility
would be to add -mipure-text to the linker flags.