gccgo on Solaris (I got it to work)

[Stephen Bancroft]

I know there may not be much demand for this these days, but I find myself in a job working with Solaris daily and I needed to have access to go. 

After many hours of searching the internet and many failed attempts I was finally able to compile gccgo for Solaris 11.3 (11.3.13.4). I'm posting this here because most things you find on this topic will be discussing Solaris 10 or older versions of Solaris, I had to tweek and modify to get things working, so I hope this helps someone else.

1) Start by installing necessary packages from rep

      # pkg install gmp

             # pkg install mpc

             # pkg install mpfr here...

2) Setup some directories

             mkdir -p $HOME/src/gccgo

             cd $HOME/src/gccgo

3) Get the gccgo source (I've used version 6 of golang here)

             svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcc-6-branch gccgo-src

4) create a new script (this is where the magic happens) I cannot take all the credit for this. This whole thing was inspired by THIS post from this group, but once again it was a few years old and needed updating.         vi build-gcc.sh

#!/bin/sh

dir=$HOME/src/gccgo

srcdir=$dir/gccgo-src

objdir=$dir/gccgo-obj

prefix=$dir/gccgo

jobs=8

export PATH=/usr/gcc/4.8/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin

export LD_OPTIONS='-R$ORIGIN/../lib/ -R/usr/gnu/lib -R/usr/sfw/lib'

languages="--enable-languages=go,"

version="--with-pkgversion=gccgo-249045"

options="--with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas --with-gnu-as --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld --without-gnu-ld --with-gmp-include=/usr/include/gmp --with-gmp-lib=/usr/lib --with-mpfr-include=/usr/include/mpfr --with-mpfr-lib=/usr/lib --with-mpfr=/usr/include --with-mpc=/usr/include --disable-nls --disable-libquadmath --disable-libssp --disable-lto --disable-libgomp --with-build-time-tools=/usr/sfw"

multilib="--enable-multilib"

shared="--enable-shared"

static="--enable-static"

if [ ! -d $objdir ]; then

         mkdir $objdir

fi

cd $objdir

$srcdir/configure --prefix=$prefix "$languages" $options $shared $static $multilib "$version" && gmake -j$jobs

4) set perms and run script

     chmod +x build-gcc.sh
    ./build-gcc.sh

5) Sit back and watch the fun!

Once the compile has finished you will have a statically linked binary that you can put where ever you like. WINNING!

bancroft@box:~/src/gccgo/gccgo-obj/gcc$ uname -a

SunOS box 5.11 11.3 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 Solaris

bancroft@box:~/src/gccgo/gccgo-obj/gcc$ ./gccgo --version

gccgo (gccgo-249045) 6.3.1 20170703

Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO

warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Let me know how you get on......

[fmg...@gmail.com]

I needed to make some modifications, 

After that it was possible to compile Go in Solaris 5.13

build.sh

#!/bin/sh

#

# GccGo Setup

#

# Deps

# pkg install gcc-c-48 ;

# pkg install gmp ;

# pkg install mpc ;

# pkg install mpfr ;

# pkg developer/versioning/subversion ;

# Get Source ;

# mkdir -p /dados_hdd/setup/gccgo-6 ;

# chmod 0777 /dados_hdd/setup/gccgo-6 ;

# cd /dados_hdd/setup/gccgo-6 ;

# # info https://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcc-6-branch/

# svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gcc-6-branch gccgo-src ;

# Config Directory

dir=/dados_hdd/setup/gccgo-6

srcdir=$dir/gccgo-src

objdir=$dir/gccgo-obj

prefix=/opt/gccgo-6

# Create Directory

mkdir -p $objdir

mkdir -p $prefix

# Exports

export PATH=/usr/gcc/4.8/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/bin:

export LD_OPTIONS='-R/usr/gnu/lib -R/usr/sfw/lib'

# Make

cd $objdir

$srcdir/configure \

    --prefix=$prefix \

    --enable-languages=go \

    --with-as=/usr/gnu/bin/as --with-gnu-as \

    --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld --without-gnu-ld \

    --with-gmp-include=/usr/include/gmp --with-gmp-lib=/usr/lib \

    --with-mpfr=/usr/include --with-mpfr-include=/usr/include/mpfr --with-mpfr-lib=/usr/lib \

    --with-mpc=/usr/include \

    --with-build-time-tools=/usr/gnu

    --enable-multilib \

    --enable-shared \

    --enable-static \

    --disable-nls \

    --disable-libquadmath \

    --disable-libssp \

    --disable-lto \

    --disable-libgomp

gmake -j8

gmake install

Checking...

root@XXX:/opt# uname -a

SunOS XXX 5.11 11.3 sun4v sparc sun4v

root@ XXX:/opt# /opt/gccgo-6/bin/gccgo --version

gccgo (GCC) 6.4.1 20180629

Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO

warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

root@ XXX:/opt#