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1# Compiling libpcap on Solaris and related OSes
2
3* Autoconf works everywhere.
4* Neither Solaris lex nor Solaris yacc are suitable.
5* Neither illumos lex nor illumos yacc are suitable.
6* Solaris m4 and illumos m4 are suitable.
7
8## OmniOS r151042/AMD64
9
10* flex 2.6.4 and GNU Bison 3.8.2 work.
11* CMake 3.23.1 works.
12* GCC 11.2.0 and Clang 14.0.3 work.
13
14## OpenIndiana 2021.04/AMD64
15
16* flex 2.6.4 and GNU Bison 3.7.6 work.
17* CMake 3.21.1 works.
18* GCC 7.5.0 and GCC 10.3.0 work, Clang 9.0.1 works.
19
20For reference, the tests were done using a system installed from
21`OI-hipster-text-20210430.iso` plus the following packages:
22```shell
23xargs -L1 pkg install <<ENDOFTEXT
24developer/build/autoconf
25developer/parser/bison
26developer/lexer/flex
27developer/build/cmake
28developer/gcc-10
29developer/clang-90
30ENDOFTEXT
31```
32
33## Solaris 11/AMD64
34
35* flex 2.6.4 and GNU Bison 3.7.3 work.
36* CMake 3.21.0 works.
37* Clang 11.0 works, GCC 11.2 works.
38
39For reference, the tests were done using Oracle Solaris 11.4.42.111.0.
40
41## Solaris 11/SPARC
42
43* flex 2.6.4 and GNU Bison 3.7.1 work.
44* CMake 3.14.3 works.
45* Sun C 5.13, Sun C 5.14 and Sun C 5.15 work; GCC 5.5.0 and GCC 7.3.0 work.
46
47## Solaris 10/SPARC
48
49* libpcap build fails with rpcapd enabled.
50* flex 2.6.4 and GNU Bison 3.7.1 work.
51* CMake 3.14.3 works.
52* Sun C 5.13 works, GCC 5.5.0 works.
53
54## Solaris 9/SPARC
55
56* flex 2.5.35 and GNU Bison 3.0.2 work.
57* CMake 2.8.9 does not work.
58* Neither Sun C 5.8 nor Sun C 5.9 work, GCC 4.6.4 works.
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