GYP build fails on Solaris

[ptribble]

Building using gyp doesn't work at all on my Solaris system, specifically Solaris 10u8.

There are two issues I encountered:

1. The v8 build doesn't build the platform bits at all

I was able to get round this by adding a solaris section in deps/v8/tools/gyp/v8.gyp that builds platform-solaris.cc and platform-posix.cc, and links against -lsocket and -lrt

1. Linking uses gnu-specific syntax

Newer Solaris ld actually understand the gnu options and map them to ld's own options, but that's fairly recent.

-Wl,--start-group => -z rescan-start
-Wl,--end-group => -z rescan-end
-Wl,--whole-archive => -z allextract
-Wl,--no-whole-archive => -z defaultextract

however, older ld only has a single '-z rescan' rather than the start/end pair

Patch (works for me, but I'm not that familiar with gyp): http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/node-gyp-solaris.diff

[bnoordhuis]

Peter, can you check the v0.6 branch? It compiles for me now on illumos with the GNU toolchain.

Do you know why you need -lsocket and -lrt? The build works fine for me without.

Re: the gyp patch - I'm kind of loath to take it. It a) doesn't apply and b) I want to keep the delta with upstream gyp as small as possible. Can you send it to the gyp-developers mailing list?

[ptribble]

Regular v0.6 works fine for me, on Solaris 10, and I produce packages for that.

I'm specifically testing master to see what sort of impact the changes to the build systems are going to have.

As for -lsocket -lrt, it may be that Illumos has merged those into libc (which Sun should have done years ago); they're definitely needed on Solaris 10.

I wasn't expecting you to take the patch straight off - I'll continue plugging away.

[bnoordhuis]

As for -lsocket -lrt, it may be that Illumos has merged those into libc (which Sun should have done years ago); they're definitely needed on Solaris 10.

Okay, I'll add them. Are they specific to V8 or does the whole build need them? I would assume the latter but your patch adds them to v8.gyp.