| Release Notes | |
| -------------- | |
| Hey folks, | |
| I just went through the process of building and using the freeimage library | |
| on Solaris 9. Things don't work out of the box so I thought I would share my | |
| experiences in case someone else wants to do the same. | |
| I'm using Solaris 9, and I have installed all the development libraries, make, | |
| and the gcc 3.3.2 found on sunfreeware.com. | |
| You have to use the make from sunfreeware because the Solaris 9 make program | |
| chokes hard on FreeImages makefiles. | |
| First thing I had to do was modify the main FreeImage makefile: | |
| 1. go to the $(SHAREDLIB): line and replace the $(CC) line with the following. | |
| (there are 2 corrections) | |
| $(CC) -s -G -Wl,-soname=$(LIBNAME) -o $@ $(MODULES) $(LIBRARIES) | |
| The two changes are -G instead of -shared, and the = sign instead of a comma | |
| after the -soname. | |
| 2. change INSTALLDIR = /usr/lib to INSTALLDIR = /usr/local/lib | |
| This is because the sunfreeware tools assume the libs being built will reside | |
| in /usr/local/lib and thus set the default linker search paths to that. Another | |
| solution for this would be to use the -R and -L linker options, but I chose | |
| the easy way :) | |
| That's it! You can now use freeimage. | |
| Also, if you have an autoconf/automake project that links against FreeImage, | |
| you can use the following in your configure.in, it works rather well for me: | |
| AC_CHECK_LIB(freeimage-3.5.0, FreeImage_Initialise, [], | |
| [AC_MSG_ERROR([libfreeimage-3.5.0.so required and missing. See | |
| http://freeimage.sourceforge.net.]) ]) | |
| the AC_CHECK_LIB macro will not only find the library, it will automatically | |
| link against it as well so you dont have to add it to your Makefile.am. | |
| I hope this helps someone! | |
| --- | |
| ogtharox at users.sourceforge.net | |
| Installation | |
| ------------ | |
| Note: You will need to have root privileges in order to install the library in the /usr/local/lib directory. | |
| The installation process is as simple as this : | |
| 1) Enter the FreeImage directory | |
| 2) Build the distribution : | |
| make -f Makefile.solaris | |
| make -f Makefile.solaris install | |
| 3) Clean all files produced during the build process | |
| make -f Makefile.solaris clean | |
| Release Notes for Solaris/Sparc | |
| -------------------------------- | |
| Under Solaris/Sparc, you will need to modify the following line : | |
| COMPILERFLAGS = -O3 | |
| modified into | |
| COMPILERFLAGS = -O3 -DBYTE_ORDER=BIG_ENDIAN -D__BIG_ENDIAN__ | |