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Komodo on Solaris

Posted by joecoffey on 2008-02-20 15:57
OS: Solaris

Im evaluating the use of Komodo at my firm. We are in a mixed windows/solaris setting. However all of the coding occurs on the solaris side.

For Komodo to be usable in this setting I would need either:
1) A solaris version of Komodo. This seems to be gone.
2) A way to use the solaris interpreters within a win-Komodo debugger, shell etc... at a usable speed for a large codebase. The remote debugger binaries for Solaris seem to be gone as well.

Are either of these possible? Am I missing something?
Thanks!

Possibilities
troyt | Thu, 2008-02-21 17:41

Solaris support, including updated remote debugging libraries, was discontinued as of Komodo 4.0. That said, there are some things you can try:

The Solaris 10 documentation seems to suggest that most Linux binaries should be able to run on x86 systems:

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/linux_interop.jsp

If you're on x86, it's definitely worth a try.

If that doesn't work for you, you may still be able to get remote debugging libraries to work:

The Perl libraries are pure-perl, so they should run fine on Solaris

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/Komodo/RemoteDebugging

The PHP debugger is xdebug, which can be compiled from source:

http://xdebug.org/

Likewise, the ruby-debug can be compiled from source:

https://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-debug/

If none of that works, you could try the Komodo 3.5 Remote Debugging Packages for Solaris:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/Komodo/RemoteDebugging

(under "Komodo 3.5 Remote Debugging Packages")

Komodo 4 should be mostly backwards compatible with these libraries, but this has not been tested.

Hope this helps.

Re: Komodo on Solaris
ToddW | Thu, 2008-02-21 17:44

Sorry for the lat reply, but here are the answers to your questions:

1) Is there a solaris version of Komodo?
No, since Komodo 4, ActiveState has dropped support for Komodo on Solaris. From what I understand, there was not enough demand to match the resources cost.

2) Remote debugger binaries for Solaris?
Most (if not all, I'm not quite sure for tcl) of the debugger downloads are not actually binaries, but operate in pure source form, so taking any of the linux download packages can be used for remote debugging purposes on a solaris machine, connecting to the Komodo application running on the Win/Mac/Linux host.

Related forum messages:
http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/komodo-ide-solaris-10-versi...

Cheers,
Todd