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Friday, April 27, 2018

Shared Libraries - naming & versioning

The convention of UNIX shared libraries names may be somewhat puzzling because it appears different systems may not strictly adhere to the convention. What makes most sense appears to be the convention followed on Linux and (apparently) not quite strictly followed on Solaris. On this post I'll try to make a better sense of this in order to discover the right (or at least best) way of doing things in Solaris.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

GCC under Solaris 11.4 Beta (refresh)

About 2 months ago I've posted about the availability of GCC 5.5.0 under Solaris 11.4 Beta. Today I've just got to know through my Linked-in connections that everything has been refreshed and that now GCC 7.3 is available. I'm still not believing but at some point I'm going to check it out!


The RLE configuration

It's been a while since I last dropped a line into this blog. That's not because I've neglected it but because there's been so much to learn in C++ and a wealth of other technologies and metodologies that it gets hard to find time to write all of my findings. But anyway here I am and let's go again.