[synthetix]

Hi all! First post here. I just recently picked up an O2. For a fun project, I want to port one of my mobile apps to IRIX. I can use GCC to compile, but I need the latest libraries and assembler/linker for IRIX 6.5.30. I have some older discs, but they aren't compatible with 6.5.30. I've looked online, but can't seem to find the Development Libraries CD from Feb 2003, and the Development Foundation 1.3 CD. If anyone can help, this would be great!

[Raion]

You don't need any of that.

http://usftp.irixnet.org has tarballs of all of the SDK tools for various IRIX versions. If you have any problems, let us know.

Edit: In case my terseness (caused by being on mobile) caused any confusion, I meant the CDs. The tarballs will install to a live IRIX system and allow you to get the files you need. You don't have to use GCC if you don't want to though, as C and C++ compilers are on usftp.

[synthetix]

That sounds good. I tried following that link, but it goes to what looks like an image hosting site. I tried on my mobile set to desktop mode. There wasn't any obvious place to browse downloads. Am I doing something wrong?

[Raion]

There is no https://, sorry. My phone messed up

http:// works.

[synthetix]

Ah, got it. Nice! I'll have a look right now.

[Raion]

Reason I don't run SSL is that it tends to slow down transfer speeds and for something as simple as this without any login information there's not a need to be worried

[synthetix]

Oh I totally agree. If there's no sensitive info being transmitted, there's no reason for it. The only issue is Google now requires https for web content, so if you're using Chrome it'll complain about the site being insecure. We had to deal with this with our own site back when this change was made, but fortunately you can just get free SSL certificates.

[synthetix]

Okay, so I just got the development stuff loaded up and it seems like the libraries and development foundation are mismatched.

The file 'developmentlibraries.tar.gz' is the IRIX 6.5.0 release from June 1998. There have been at least two additional releases since then:
• IRIX 6.5 Development Libraries (Feb 2002)
• IRIX 6.5 Development Libraries (Feb 2003)

The way you tell the difference between all three versions is the version of Netscape Communicator Development Environment:
Jan 1998: Netscape version 4.05
Feb 2002: Netscape version 4.78
Feb 2003: Netscape version 4.8

I think the libraries and development foundation CDs are a matched set. If you don't install the correct versions together, Software Manager complains about the versions not matching. One problem I encountered, for example, was not being able to install the updated C99 headers from Dev Foundation 1.3 because I didn't have the matching updated libraries distribution.

Any chance you can see if you've got the Feb 2003 release?

[Raion]

There are later versions on the FTP somewhere. You're looking for devf13 for one. There's been a few rearrangements lately. There's no mismatching, but things got moved around.

[Raion]

Update: look in the mipspro 744 directory for the devf13 version, and the mipspro tarballs are there. You can use that to install the updated headers. You'll want to also apply the necessary patches. I don't think there is the 2003 version of the libraries in there separately but if you install everything then it shouldn't be a problem.