My master-monks,

I use Perl in Solaris 10 (sun built 5.4.8) for development of scripts and programs in a corporate environment and get on just fine - except fortunately we've only ever had to add ONE module to get MySql interactivty, and I got round gcc compiling problems by eventually getting "Net::MySQL" to work (after quite alot of tweaking in the Makefile!) ..

Anyway, Ive always thought that using a pre-compiled sunfreeware.com distribution of Perl and gcc would make things much better (i.e. download a Module and any relevant dependencies and it should all build without an issue).

But:

Ive used VirtualBox to create myself an Opensolaris installation - (ok, not quite as 'good' as Solaris in terms of all the extra software you get packaged, but I don't think it matters - let me know if this is wrong!) - and Ive downloaded Perl 5.12 and gcc 3.4.6 from SunFreeware.com.

However, I am still running into huge problems compiling modules using gcc - I haven't managed to build/make a single module except Net::MySQL (which this time went through almost flawlessly!) ..

So after 7hours and 5 modules and alot of googling, I gave up and thought "ok, Ive got gcc, let's compile my own Perl and see how that goes" - so I go download the latest Perl distro from perl.org and I can't get even close to compiling the damn thing ..

Does anyone have any experience running Perl and Gcc distro's on Solaris which end in 'happy tales'? I know it must be possible, I just must be being dumb somewhere!

Thanks! Fellow-Perl-follower, Hugo

In reply to Solaris, perl and gcc by 6crazy9

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