[Met_help] Re: MET FEEDBACK from Bob Pasken

[John Halley Gotway]

Bob,

MET has not been ported to Solaris yet.  I believe that yours is the first question we've received about it.

I'm told that the include files aren't set up the same way on Solaris as they are on most Linux distributions.  You'll likely need to add some more include files in some of the MET source files to get 
it to build.

Unfortunately, we don't have any Solaris machines available on which we could test.  If you'd like to get MET to build on Solaris, I'd start with modifying the include files.  And I would suggest 
sticking with the GNU compilers you started with.

So for this first compiler error from the file, lib/vx_wrfdata/vx_wrfdata.cc, it can't find the function "open".  Take a look in the "man" pages on your machine to see where "open" is defined:
man 2 open

The man page should list the header files that need to be included for "open".  Then include those header files in the lib/vx_wrfdata/vx_wrfdata.cc file.  And try recompiling MET.

Getting MET up and running on Solaris may take some effort.  But we're happy to help along the way.  And if you do get it built, we could include your fixes in future releases of MET.

Thanks,
John Halley-Gotway
johnhg at ucar.edu

MET.FEEDBACK at rap.ucar.edu wrote:
> First Name = Bob
> Last Name = Pasken
> Institution = Saint Louis University
> Email = rpasken at eas.slu.edu
> MET Feedback = I am trying to compile METv1.1 using the gcc-4.2.2 compiler suite on a Solaris-2.10/Solaris-2.11 x86 based system. When I use the gcc compiler suite I get the following when trying to compile vx_wrfdata.cc in lib/vx_wrfdata directory
> 
> *** Making vx_wrfdata Library ***
> 
> /opt/local/bin/g++ vx_wrfdata.cc    -c -I.. -I/opt/local//include
> vx_wrfdata.cc: In member function \'int WrfData::write(const char*, const char*, const char*) const\':
> vx_wrfdata.cc:527: error: \'open\' was not declared in this scope
> vx_wrfdata.cc: In member function \'int WrfData::read(const char*)\':
> vx_wrfdata.cc:608: error: \'open\' was not declared in this scope
> gmake[3]: *** [vx_wrfdata.o] Error 1
> gmake[2]: *** [vx_wrfdata_all] Error 2
> gmake[1]: *** [libs] Error 2
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> The strange thing is that if I use SunStudio-12 this file compiles fine but I get errors with regard to min function. Specifically in the vx_grib_classes I get the following
> /opt/SUNWspro/bin/CC grib_classes.cc    -c -I..
> \"../vx_util/ascii_table.h\", line 33: Warning: Identifier expected instead of \"}\".
> \"grib_classes.cc\", line 1179: Error: The function \"min\" must have a prototype.
> 1 Error(s) and 1 Warning(s) detected.
> gmake[3]: *** [grib_classes.o] Error 1
> gmake[2]: *** [vx_grib_classes_all] Error 2
> gmake[1]: *** [libs] Error 2
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
>