[zeromq-dev] ZeroMQv 0.6 build on Solaris 9

[Martin Sustrik]

Ayman,

> I am trying to build ZeroMQ on Sun Solaris 9 using GCC 4.2.4. The build 
> failed in  “libzmq/zmq/atomic_bitmap.hpp”
> 
> Did you tried to build ZeroMQ on Solaris 9?

No. We're using Solaris 10 for testing.

> Bellow is the build error log.

> ../../libzmq/zmq/atomic_bitmap.hpp:96: error: 'atomic_cas_32' was not 
> declared in this scope
> 
> ../../libzmq/zmq/atomic_bitmap.hpp: In member function 'uint32_t 
> zmq::atomic_bitmap_t::xchg(uint32_t)':
> 
> ../../libzmq/zmq/atomic_bitmap.hpp:153: error: 'atomic_swap_32' was not 
> declared in this scope
> 
> ../../libzmq/zmq/atomic_bitmap.hpp: In member function 'uint32_t 
> zmq::atomic_bitmap_t::izte(uint32_t, uint32_t)':
> 
> ../../libzmq/zmq/atomic_bitmap.hpp:207: error: 'atomic_cas_32' was not 
> declared in this scope

This looks like Solaris 9 doesn't provide wrapper functions for atomic 
instructions. You can disable the use of atomics this way:

export CXXFLAGS=-DZMQ_FORCE_MUTEXES
./configure
make

Let us know whether it helped!
Martin