Hence, the configuration line must contain the following options (type “Configure -h” to see all the available parameters and their defaults): # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

Same specifications presented for embedded GCC above apply here for LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but add instead ‘-B/usr/local/bin/’ to the gcc command line to use GNU “as” and “ld” executables. The above conditions may be imposed with the following commands: # export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sfw/bin

directories /usr/local/sbin and /usr/local/bin must be specified at the beginning of the list.

Set environment variables for customized GCC Configure -des -A ccflags='-fPIC' -Dcc='gcc -B/usr/ccs/bin/' -Dusethreads -Duseshrplib # export LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib' Make sure your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable does NOT include /lib or /usr/lib and add ‘-B/usr/ccs/bin/’ to the gcc command line to use Sun “as” and “ld” executables. The above conditions may be imposed with the following commands: # export PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sfw/bin

directories /usr/ccs/bin and /usr/sfw/bin must be specified at the end of the list.

The following conditions must be fulfilled: Set environment variables for embedded GCC # /usr/local/bin/tar xzvf perl-5.20.0.tar.gzīefore you start compiling, you should check your root user’s path and the system library path, using respectively: # echo $PATHĭefault Library Path (ELF): /lib:/usr/lib Let’s start by unzipping Perl’s source files under /application directory (take care to use the GNU version of the tar command!), then make “root” user their owner: # cd /application The installation process should be carried out with the “root” user: # su - root Now, please download Perl source code from its homepage and … Let’s drill down! libperl.so, not static!) supporting ithreads. Both solutions are presented in this post, showing in details how to obtain a shared library (i.e. In order to accomplish this, you can use the GNU C Compiler embedded on Solaris under /usr/ccs path, although I personally prefer to employ the customized version of GCC installed in /usr/local. But if you want to integrate Perl in a SAMPP (Solaris + Apache + MySQL + PHP + Perl) environment, you’d better configure and build it by yourself in order to use parameters suitable for Apache modules like mod_perl (see my next post!).

Installing Perl in Solaris can be very simple, especially using an already built package from Unix Packages. Perl is an interpreted and dynamic programming language, which is very popular for CGI scripting.

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