transmission on Solaris 11 (not express)

[lollodream]

Hello. I'm a supernoob and I'm trying to install transmission on Solaris 11, the last version.
I've read all the topics I could find searching for "solaris" but none of those helped me.

This is what I've installed so far:
gcc
libtool
gettext
intltool
OpenSSL
libcurl
GTK+
libnotify
DBUS

I've then downloaded transmission--2.51.tar.bz2 and extracted on:

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/home/myuser/Downloads/transmission-2.51/

From there, I'd like to compile transmission to be usable on the graphics environment.

This is what I've tried (from the extracted folder, as Super User):

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./configure -q && make -s

And this is what I get:

configure: error: in '/home/myuser/Downloads/transmission-2.51':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

Can you please point me to some sort of guide to work this errors out?

Thank you for your kind attention and sorry for my English.

[marty]

I run transmission on Solaris 11 constantly.

First off, version 1.93 is included within Solaris. If you want to use that, it should already be installed with the desktop apps. If not, you can install it by typing the following as root:

pkg install transmission

If you want to build your own, I have found the safest thing to do is first install a zone and do the build there. This way you don't pollute your global zone with multiple, possibly conflicting software packages. Once built in your new local zone, you can copy the binary to the global zone.

That said, all builds need a C compiler and Solaris does not automatically ship with one. Most of Solaris is built with the SunPro C compiler. Last I checked, this was available for free. In the interest of compatibility, you may want to install SunPro on your machine.

On the other hand, Solaris makes available most of the GNU tools. You can install them by typing the following as root:

pkg install developer-gnu

Once you have a good C compiler, the install should proceed smoothly. Let us know how it works out for you.

[s0rce]

also see:

https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/4891