Testing Ring on DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and OpenIndiana

[Youssef Saeed]

Hello everyone,

I am writing to share the results of a portability assessment of Ring (v1.25) on several Unix-like operating systems, specifically within the BSD and OpenSolaris families.

To achieve successful execution on these platforms, I required a few minor modifications to the source code. I have attached the full `general.c` and `ring.h` files if you want to run Ring on these platforms.

Code Modifications:

• src/general.c: Updated `ring_general_exefilename` to correctly handle executable path detection logic for these specific platforms (exefilename() and exefolder()).
• include/ring.h: Added the necessary preprocessor definitions to recognize NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFly BSD variants alongside the existing FreeBSD logic.

Test Results:
With these changes applied, the test suite results were excellent:

• DragonFly BSD 6.4.2: 100% Pass (0 Fails)
• OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (SunOS 5.11): 100% Pass (0 Fails)
  
  
• NetBSD 10.1: 99.8% Pass (1 Fail)
• OpenBSD 7.8: 99.7% Pass (2 Fails)

Note on Test Failures:
Regarding the minor failures on NetBSD (1) and OpenBSD (2): These are performance-related tests. Since I am running these operating systems inside Virtual Machines, these failures are expected due to virtualization overhead and do not indicate a bug in the Ring language implementation itself.

Best regards,
Youssef

[Mansour Ayouni]

Hello Youssef,

That's wonderful!

Best,

Mansour

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[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Youssef

>> "To achieve successful execution on these platforms, I required a few minor modifications to the source code. I have attached the full `general.c` and `ring.h` files if you want to run Ring on these platforms."

Thanks for sharing :D

Greetings,

Mahmoud