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Old 02-23-2005
Question IRIX 6.5 newbie

I have had the great fortune to get an sgi octane for free! Smilie I have managed to get me an OS(IRIX 6.5.19f) but I have some questions that I hope are not too simple to the gurus out there. Before I ask, I build macs and PC's and have had some experience hacking osx into old beige macs, and pcs, so my skills are decent EXCEPT with IRIX. Anyway...the specs on the Octane are IRIX 6.5.19 768 RAM ESI graphics with tex mem, Dual 300 R12k chips.

Is there a link to give me a step by step process on how to compile a binary using the native compiler gmake (i think)??? I have not found much for the uninitiated. There is some cool sourceforge sw for IRIX, but it is source, and I have no idea on how to compile, most of the info I have found is either Linux or or some other flavor of unix, and they are all different, and not too newbie friendly.

Any help would be appreciated!! I humble myself at the unix/irix alter..... Smilie
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Old 02-24-2005
On the console, you may want to try the command:
man gmake or man make

Some googling
http://www.k-huhn.com/irix/
http://www-it.et.tudelft.nl/~erik/gcc/
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Old 02-24-2005
thanks!

that is a good place to start...thanks!
 
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