SunOS support?

[sanderson]

Trying to use node-sass on a SmartOS server which is a Solaris variant. Any chance node-sass will be compiled for SunOS? Currently it isn't.

[am11]

There is an open issue for SunOS in binary repo: https://github.com/sass/node-sass-binaries/issues/32.

Technically, there shouldn't be any problem building binaries with GCC 4.7+ against SPARC, x86 and ia64. The only reason it never happened is because nobody contributed SunOS binaries to binaries repo. :) I tried configuring SunOS VM but ran into issues. If you have access to SunOS, would you like to contribute binaries on regular basis?

Here is the Linux Dockerfile for your reference (which we use to build Linux binaries): https://gist.github.com/am11/1529b2458b1a1f4bdba8. You may want to handle SPARC architecture separately for node.js (AFAICR, io.js doesn't support SunOS).

[xzyfer]

Unless there a community advocate for AIX SunOS willing to generate binaries for release, or provide an automated solution we cannot not actively support it.

[saper]

I think @xzyfer mean Solaris but this applies to AIX too (#988)

[djensen47]

It also appears that compiling node-sass on SmartOS/Solaris is broken, again. Does this mean that SmartOS/Solaris is no longer supported by the Sass community?

[saper]

We need:

• to know how many platform variants do we have/need to support
• to have a good C++11 compiler (can be gcc, clang, possibly some other)
• it should be researched what kind of C++ runtime libraries need to supported (GNU's libstdc++, clang's libc++, any other?), especially what comes preinstalled with the OS
• ability to install and switch between various versions of node and iojs. (NODE_MODULE_VERSION values 11, 14, 42, 43, 44)
• ability to automate all those builds and running npm test on them.
• ability to extract and package generated binding files.

Example: the process I am using to provide FreeBSD binaries, on Linux we are using docker.

[xzyfer]

Does this mean that SmartOS/Solaris is no longer supported by the Sass community.

No. We want LibSass and node-sass to run everywhere. We however do not currently have a hosted CI solution for SunOS to monitor breakages, or anyone in with SunOS experience volunteering to help with building binaries (or helping with an automated solution).

This is why we continue to see regressions in building LibSass on SunOS, and why don't offer prebuilt SunOS binaries for node-sass. If this is something you have the experience and time for we'd love to have your help maintaining SunOS support.

[xzyfer]

Closing due to lack of interest.