FS2 Open on Solaris

Grab a copy of Solaris

Download the Oracle Solaris 11.1 x86 VirtualBox Appliance, update the guest additions, or install Solaris 11.1 for x86 on a desktop PC.

Install needed dependencies

• developer/gcc-45
• system/library/gcc-45-runtime
• developer/build/autoconf
• developer/build/automake
• developer/build/gnu-make
• library/readline
• runtime/lua
• developer/versioning/subversion
• library/sdl
• developer/versioning/git
• developer/build/cmake
• Install Jansson, it may not be available as a package but can be installed from source.

Install OpenAL

This is why git and cmake were installed while you had the package manager open. Clone the latest openal-soft from http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html, follow its build instructions, except use the following command instead of 'cmake ..':
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..

Compile FS2

• svn co svn://svn.icculus.org/fs2open/trunk/fs2_open/
• cd fs2_open
• ./autogen.sh
• gmake
• TODO: Figure out why it can't find libGL.so.1 in the virtual machine. See if a full blown desktop install has similar issues.
• cp code/fs2_open_* ../

References

Building FS2_Open on OpenSolaris
Building OpenAL on Solaris