Oracle is announcing the availability of Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2, the latest release in a 20+ year history of delivering the best integrated development platform for building scalable, secure and reliable mission-critical enterprise and ISV applications. Freely available for production use on Oracle Solaris and Linux operating systems, you can download it from the Oracle Technology Network(OTN):
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solarisstudio/downloads/index.html
Highlights include:
- C, C++ and Fortran compiler optimizations for the newest Oracle Sun T-series (SPARC T3 & T2), M-series (SPARC64), and x86-based (Intel Nehalem-EX & Westmere-EP) Enterprise Servers, delivering up to 4.8x faster code
- Improved application profiling with experiment comparison (Performance Analyzer)
- New thread error detection in binaries (Thread Analyzer)
- Updated DTrace-based visualization tool (DLight)
- New memory debugger with increased performance (Discover)
- New code coverage tool (Uncover)
- Updated OpenMP 3.0 support throughout toolchain
- Updated IDE, based on NetBeans 6.9.1
- Optimized performance libraries for the newest SPARC and x86 platforms
See the What’s New in the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 Release guide for complete details.
With Studio 10 and 11, it was possible to select the individual packages to install, which made it possible and easy to install only what I needed. This was great, and worked exactly as I needed it.
With this Studio 12, it comes with some funny script that wants to install everything, and demands a gui which I don’t have. It’s not possible to select the exact packages I want, in fact in its current state, I can’t install Studio 12 the way it was possible with previous versions at all. This is very frurtrating, and prevents me from using Studio 12. When will this problem be addressed?