How do i download msn messenger for my SPARC Solaris 8 system. I can't find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Probably your best option would be to go with Everybuddy. It has a SPARC platform that works like kind of like GAIM where it supports AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber.. and a few others I think.

Go Here: http://soldc.sun.com/freeware/detail...5_8_SPARC.html

thanks for the help with everybuddy. now it tells me that i need gcc. a buddy of mine had it but can't remember where he got it from. he couldn't download it so he deleted it. any help with the search and the download? thanks again...

Try this website: http://www.sunfreeware.com/

I know they have gcc 3.2 I believe for download.

i have downloaded and installed gcc, gtk, make, automake, glib, wget, and some others. i still have a problem. i can't run make or automake. is there anything else i need to download to make everybuddy run. i almost think this isn't worth all the trouble, but it sure would make things a lot easier. thanks.

What or any kind of errors are you getting when running them ??

this is one of the problems i found. all these things that are missing and that are not loading or not being found. all of these things have been downloaded. this is what my terminal window looks like anyway. thanks for your help.

# cd everybuddy-0.4.3
# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) no
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for c++... (cached) c++
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... yes
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) is a cross-compiler... yes
checking whether we are using GNU C++... (cached) yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for Cygwin environment... (cached) no
checking for mingw32 environment... (cached) no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking for ld used by GCC... (cached) /usr/ccs/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) is GNU ld... (cached) no
checking for /usr/ccs/bin/ld option to reload object files... (cached) -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... (cached) /usr/ccs/bin/nm -p
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... (cached) /usr/xpg4/bin/sed
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking how to recognise dependant libraries... (cached) pass_all
checking for object suffix... (cached) o
checking for executable suffix... (cached) no
checking command to parse /usr/ccs/bin/nm -p output... (cached) ok
checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) :
checking for strip... (cached) strip
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... (cached) -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... (cached) yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... (cached) yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... (cached) yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... solaris2.8 ld.so
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
creating libtool
checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... (cached) yes
checking for X... (cached) libraries , headers
checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet... (cached) no
checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub... (cached) no
checking for gethostbyname... (cached) no
checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... (cached) yes
checking for connect... (cached) no
checking for connect in -lsocket... (cached) yes
checking for remove... (cached) yes
checking for shmat... (cached) yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... (cached) yes
checking for paths.h... (cached) no
checking for termios.h... (cached) yes
checking for sgtty.h... (cached) yes
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checking for ranlib... (cached) :
checking for strerror in -lcposix... (cached) no
checking for working const... (cached) yes
checking for inline... (cached) inline
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checking for getpagesize... (cached) yes
checking for working mmap... (cached) no
checking whether we are using the GNU C Library 2.1 or newer... (cached) no
checking for argz.h... (cached) no
checking for limits.h... (cached) yes
checking for locale.h... (cached) yes
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checking for getcwd... (cached) yes
checking for getegid... (cached) yes
checking for geteuid... (cached) yes
checking for getgid... (cached) yes
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checking for mempcpy... (cached) no
checking for munmap... (cached) yes
checking for putenv... (cached) yes
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checking for setlocale... (cached) yes
checking for stpcpy... (cached) no
checking for strchr... (cached) yes
checking for strcasecmp... (cached) yes
checking for strdup... (cached) yes
checking for strtoul... (cached) yes
checking for tsearch... (cached) yes
checking for __argz_count... (cached) no
checking for __argz_stringify... (cached) no
checking for __argz_next... (cached) no
checking for iconv... (cached) yes
checking for iconv declaration... (cached)
extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, const char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesle
ft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... (cached) yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... (cached) yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking whether included gettext is requested... no
checking for libintl.h... (cached) yes
checking for GNU gettext in libc... (cached) no
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checking for msgfmt... (cached) no
checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) :
checking for xgettext... (cached) no
checking for bison... no
checking for catalogs to be installed... fr de pt_PT tr es ja
checking for -lpthread compiler option... yes
checking for -liconv compiler option... no
checking for ispell... no
checking for working const... (cached) yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... (cached) time.h
checking return type of signal handlers... (cached) void
checking for strftime... (cached) yes
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checking for getlogin... (cached) yes
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checking for krb_get_err_text... (cached) no
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-n checking whether we want ESD support...
yes
checking for esd-config... (cached) no
checking for ESD - version >= 0.2.7... no
*** The esd-config script installed by ESD could not be found
*** If ESD was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the ESD_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to esd-config.
checking for artsc-config... (cached) no
checking for ARTS... cannot find artsc_config; you must provide --with-arts-pref
ix
no - user override
checking for glib-config... (cached) no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
checking for gtk-config... (cached) no
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.
checking for X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h... (cached) yes
checking for XScreenSaverRegister in -lXext... (cached) yes
checking for snprintf... (cached) yes
checking for gethostent in -lnsl... (cached) yes
checking for connect... (cached) no
checking for connect in -lsocket... (cached) yes
checking for _af_ulaw2linear in -laudiofile... (cached) no
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating src/Makefile
creating doc/Makefile
creating m4/Makefile
creating po/Makefile.in
creating intl/Makefile
creating pixmaps/Makefile
creating pixmaps/standard2/Makefile
creating pixmaps/console_smileys/Makefile
creating pixmaps/msn_rip/Makefile
creating pixmaps/yahoo_rip/Makefile
creating libproxy/Makefile
creating libproxy/config.h
creating sounds/Makefile
creating modules/Makefile
creating modules/importers/Makefile
creating modules/utility/Makefile
creating modules/aim-toc/Makefile
creating modules/aim-toc/libtoc/Makefile
creating modules/icq/Makefile
creating modules/icq/libicq/Makefile
creating modules/irc/Makefile
creating modules/jabber/Makefile
creating modules/jabber/libjabber/Makefile
creating modules/jabber/libjabber/include/Makefile
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creating modules/jabber/libjabber/include/jabber/Makefile
creating modules/jabber/libxode/Makefile
creating modules/jabber/libxode/include/Makefile
creating modules/jabber/libxode/include/config.h
creating modules/msn2/Makefile
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creating modules/yahoo2/libyahoo2/config.h
creating po/POTFILES
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forgive me for taking it slightly off track here but i use amsn for linux, and find it works great. i went to their website and found that they provide platform independent source code. it is http://amsn.sourceforge.net/ if you want to have a look.

i snouted around on there but can't seem to see a list of dependencies, so i suppose you may have to download it and try it to find out!

i know, sorry to not be much help, but that's the one i use and i found it installed from source with no dependencies on my linux system, and i am often plagued with dependency problems.

i am now trying to download amsn that you told me about. i am not familiar with the WISH script. can you point me in the right direction to find it. google search, along with others, could not find it. thanks.

What error are you getting when you "can't run make"? If you installed GCC from Sunfreeware, the binaries are gcc and gmake, not cc and make.

i can't find gmake in any ls. when i try to run make, it says command not found or no such file or directory. this sun machine doesn't usually give me problems like this. any clues???

Sunfreeware packages typically install into /usr/local/bin. Is this in your PATH?

I think thier doing ls for the directory thier currently i.n

yes /usr/local/bin is in my path. their is a make file, but no gmake file.