Small patch to build FluidSynth 1.0.9 on Solaris

[laurent]

FluidSynth doesn't build out of the box on Solaris/OpenSolaris.

The rather trivial patch attached make it work.

As far as I can tell, it then works very well with ScummVM.

[diwic]

Thanks for submitting this patch! However, your patch includes a change to the configure file, which is automatically generated by the script "autogen.sh" and the file "configure.ac" (and possibly more files?). That means that even if your patch is applied it will be overwritten the next time anybody runs autogen.sh. Is it possible for you rewrite the patch so that it changes other files instead of the configure file?

[diwic]

By the way, if you run the autogen script on your machine, will it make a correct configure script? And just for the record, what version of Solaris/OpenSolaris are you running?

[laurent]

Good point, sorry, I'm still not very proficient with the autotools.

Here's a new version of the patch that modifies configure.ac instead of configure. After running autogen.sh, it configures and builds ok. without that patch, the generated configure won't work. I've tested it on Both Solaris 10 10/08 and OpenSolaris? 2009.06 (actually, having to add "-lnsl -lsocket" is *very* common on all Solaris versions).

[laurent]

Patch to build FluidSynth 1.0.9 on Solaris

[diwic]

It's great that we've found a way to build 1.0.9 on Solaris, I have added this information to the Wiki for now.

I was going to commit it into current SVN but since 1.0.9, FluidSynth has started to depend on GLib, so the situation has changed slightly. Would it be possible for you to investigate whether the patch is still needed in the current SVN version? Thanks in advance!

[laurent]

The SVN version won't build out-of-the-box, because those options have been added, which are not supported by Solaris' ld:

src/Makefile.am:fluidsynth_LDFLAGS = -Wl,--as-needed src/Makefile.in:fluidsynth_LDFLAGS = -Wl,--as-needed

They should be used only if GNU's ld is detected,

Once removed, it also needs configure modified in the same way to build, but not fluidsynth_priv.h anymore.

[diwic]

I've committed changes to configure.ac and Makefile.am to SVN now (r204). Can you check if it builds correctly now?

[laurent]

I had to run "automake --add-missing" to get Makefile.in, as well as autogen.sh, it then configured and built without problem, thanks :-)