Requirements

• Free Oracle account
• VirtualBox

Notes

• The following tries to replicate the CRAN builds config.
• Solaris iconv does not work. We need GNU iconv from CSW
• The CSW version of r_base uses gcc (also from CSW)
• The builds below use the Oracle Studio 12.5 compiler instead (because CRAN)

Setup

• Download Solaris 10 VM for VirtualBox
• Double Click image to open in Virtualbox
• In virtual box "Devices" menu, enable share clipboard bewteen guest/host (bidirectional).
• Click though menu to setup server.
• Log as root.
• Use kbd -s to change keyboard layout, log-out and log-on to activate.

Compilers

• Like CRAN, we use Oracle Studio 12.5
• Dowload Oracle Studio 12.5
• Unpack the using bzip2 -d OracleDeveloperStudio12.5-solaris-x86-pkg.tar.bz2 and tar -xvf OracleDeveloperStudio12.5-solaris-x86-pkg.tar
• Go in the folder cd OracleDeveloperStudio12.5-solaris-x86-pkg
• If not enough space in temp dir when running ./developerstudio.sh, do mkdir ../temp and ./developerstudio.sh --tempdir ../temp

GNU libiconv

• Add the opencsw repsitory.
• Install GNU iconv: /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i libiconv_dev
• Install GNU readline: /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i libreadline6
• Install GNU gcc5: /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i gcc5core
• Install GNU wget /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i wget

Build r-base

/opt/csw/bin/wget http://cran.rstudio.com/src/base/R-3/R-3.5.1.tar.gz
gunzip -d R-3.5.1.tar.gz
tar xvf R-3.5.1.tar
cd R-3.5.1
rm config.site
## Copy new config.site into R dir
PATH=$PATH:/opt/developerstudio12.5/bin
./configure --prefix=/opt/R --with-readline=no --with-internal-tzcode
make
sudo mkdir -p /opt/R/lib/R/lib
sudo make install