Installing Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 (tarfile) on Solaris 11 Express

Until Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 becomes available via a Solaris 11 Express publisher, one can download the tarfile and use the compilers and tools. Here’s how:

1. Download Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2

In the table, pick the download in the “Tarfile” column and the “Solaris 10 OS on SPARC” or “Solaris 10 OS on x86″ row, depending on your architecture.

2. Unpack the tarfile

bzcat download_directory/SolarisStudio12.2-[OS]-[PLATFORM]-[FORMAT]-ML.tar.bz2 | /bin/tar -xf -

3. Update PATH

I updated my .profile directly

4. Add necessary Solaris packages to use Oracle Solaris Studio. Here’s the complete list of Solaris packages that Solaris Studio needs:

• system/library/math
• developer/macro/cpp
• system/library/c++/sunpro
• developer/linker
• system/header (Not installed by default by LiveCD installation)
• developer/build/make
• developer/java/jdk (Not installed by default by LiveCD installation)
• system/library/math/header-math (Not installed by default by LiveCD installation)
• developer/library/lint (Not installed by default by LiveCD installation)

To find out if the package is already installed, use the pkg info command:

koberoi@raiders:~$ pkg info system/library/math
Name: system/library/math
Summary: Math & Microtasking Libraries
Description: Math & Microtasking Libraries
Category: System/Libraries
State: Installed
Publisher: solaris
Version: 0.5.11
Build Release: 5.11
Branch: 0.151.0.1
Packaging Date: November 5, 2010 06:11:38 AM
Size: 2.62 MB
FMRI: pkg://solaris/system/library/math@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.0.1:20101105T061138Z

If it is not installed, then you’ll receive a message similar to this:

koberoi@raiders:~$ pkg info system/header
pkg: info: no packages matching the following patterns you specified are
installed on the system. Try specifying -r to query remotely:

system/header

You can then check to see if one of your publishers has it:

koberoi@raiders:~$ pkg info -r system/header
Name: system/header
Summary: SunOS Header Files
Description: SunOS C/C++ header files for general development of software
Category: System/Core
State: Not installed
Publisher: solaris
Version: 0.5.11
Build Release: 5.11
Branch: 0.151.0.1
Packaging Date: November 5, 2010 12:21:36 AM
Size: 11.47 MB
FMRI: pkg://solaris/system/header@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.0.1:20101105T002136Z

You can then install it:

koberoi@raiders:~$ sudo pkg install system/header
Password:
Packages to install: 1
Create boot environment: No
DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB)
Completed 1/1 1499/1499 3.6/3.6

PHASE ITEMS
Package State Update Phase 1/1
Image State Update Phase 2/2
koberoi@raiders:~$

And then verify that it is installed:

koberoi@raiders:~$ pkg info system/header
Name: system/header
Summary: SunOS Header Files
Description: SunOS C/C++ header files for general development of software
Category: System/Core
State: Installed
Publisher: solaris
Version: 0.5.11
Build Release: 5.11
Branch: 0.151.0.1
Packaging Date: November 5, 2010 12:21:36 AM
Size: 11.47 MB
FMRI: pkg://solaris/system/header@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.0.1:20101105T002136Z
koberoi@raiders:~$

FYI, to be able to compile/run hello world for C, C++, & Fortran as well as run the IDE on my newly minted Solaris 11 Express installation (from LiveCD), I had to install the following 2 OS packages:

• system/header (Not installed by default by LiveCD installation)
• system/library/math/header-math (Not installed by default by LiveCD installation)