Compilers and host systems

Supported environments

The operating systems on which the Hyperion repository can be built without additional patches and run are Linux, FreeBSD, Mac, and Windows. Cross-compilation for the Raspberry Pi also exists.

Several other distributions and dialects provide pre-packaged Hercules binaries, usually significantly downlevel from the codebase here.

	Linux	FreeBSD	Mac	Windows
Compiler	gcc/clang	gcc/clang	clang	msvc
				VS2008 VS2010 VS2012 VS2013
Since		2014-01-01

# Unsupported environments as far as building from this repository is concerned While there may be conditional C to support the following environments, they are not known to build; some are known not to build.

That said, there are packages of prebuilt Hercules for many platforms.

Cygwin

Cygwin was the original development environment, but it is no longer supported though we try not to do anything to break it.

FreeBSD

The FreeBSD ports collection contains a patch to build Hercules 3.09.

The major patch is to delete ltdl.c from Makefile.in as FreeBSD uses the standard unix dynamic loader.

Raspberry Pi

There are reports of successful builds of unspecified releases. You really have to be an enthusiast to pursue this with the current raspberry hardware (2013). And have time on your hands.

Solaris

There has been no Solaris activity for quite a while. The status is unknown.