[MPlayer-users] Compiling on Solaris 7/SPARC

[Jessica Blank]

Hi all:

	I am having a great amount of difficulty compiling on Solaris 
7/SPARC.

	Firstly, 'older' Solaris releases lack inet_pton() and inet_aton() 
completely.

	I was able to find an inet_pton() routine in the BIND 9.x sources, 
so I used that.

	However, when it came time to link the binary (I am compiling 
statically-- don't ask why, I just want to do it that way, so I can bring 
the binary to any given Solaris box and have it Just Work without worrying 
about library versions!) I realized that Solaris 7 ALSO lacks 
"libresolv.a".

	There is a "libresolv.so" but no "libresolv.a". I've heard that 
some modern linkers can, through some High Voodoo Magic, link a .so 
library into a static binary-- but I don't want to try it...

	This may be an obscure question, but-- does anyone know where I 
can get the sources to libresolv so I can compile it myself? (I've heard 
that glibc includes it-- but I'd REALLY rather avoid having to install 
and/or compile and/or statically link against ALL OF GLIBC just to get 
libresolv!)

	ANOTHER QUESTION: Can anyone think of any other issues which would 
prevent mplayer and/or libavcodec from running properly on Solaris/SPARC? 
I noticed that certain portions of the source tree had i386/alpha/PPC/etc. 
architecture-specific directories, but no SPARC...

	Many thanks!

							--Jessica

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