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1. Sun Studio Express – June 2007 Build 1. Sun Studio Express – June 2007 Build
Welcome to the Sun Studio Express Program: your opportunity to get a window into our early development process and to shape future decisions by giving us your feedback. It is our top priority to hear what you have to say. Experiment with the bits, participate in forums, and let us know what you think. This is just one build in a continuous program and some functionality is still missing or isn't fully implemented yet. Despite these limitations we think that what's available is interesting enough to make it worth downloading the bits. We encourage you to install and try this Sun Studio Express build.. This README page will give you all the information you need about what's new in this release. In addition, you can consult the Sun Studio forums for last minute information, and you can post feedback. On the forums you'll be able to get answers to your questions from our engineers as well as the community. And, we'd also like to hear from you about what what worked and what didn't, and what we should improve. A D-Light Getting Started Guide is available as part of Help and you can navigate to it by either pressing F1 or right clicking on the D-Light panel and selecting Help. We encourage you to read through the guide in order to get familiar with the basics concepts of the tool. Note that the man pages and other documentation in the Express downloaded bits have not all been updated yet. The Sun Studio 12 documentation page links to all the manuals, man pages, and readmes for Sun Studio 12, which is the latest official software release. 2. System and Hardware Requirements
The minimum system and hardware requirements for this Sun Studio Express build are: Hardware
If you want to try Sun Studio Express on a Solaris Express build (Solaris Express, Developer Edition; OpenSolaris, etc.), or on any Linux distribution which minimally has the 2.6.X Linux kernel and 2.3.3+ glibc, we would very much like to receive your input. 3. Installing This Sun Studio Express Build
3.1 You can install the Sun Studio Express June 2007 build as follows: Install the Product Tarfile This installation extracts the installed version of Sun Studio software from a tarfile, without using Solaris or Linux packages. You do not need to have root access to install the tarfile. Note: No package installation is available for this build. 3.2 Downloading: Access this Sun Studio Express release download by going to the Sun Studio Express page. 3.3 Download and Install the Product Tarfile Download both the product tarfile into
a scratch directory, such as Install Sun Studio Express by unpacking the product tarfile into the directory of your choice with the command: $ bzcat DOWNLOAD-DIRECTORY/StudioExpress-OS-PLATFORM-DATE-ii.tar.bz2 | /bin/tar -xf -
WARNING: Do not install any Express builds over an installation of a
production Sun Studio release or previous Express build. Typically, production installations of
Sun Studio releases are installed in Now update your PATH and MANPATH shell variables to the installation and documentation directories or modify your home directory's .cshrc file (for C shell) or .profile file (for Bourne or Korn shells) to make these changes permanent. If you use csh:
If you use sh (or ksh):
4. Update Notification
The Update Notification feature periodically checks www.sun.com and communicates available changes related to your Sun Studio software, including patches and major software updates. In this Sun Studio Express build, only usage information is communicated. This information is used by Sun Microsystems to improve future Sun Studio software releases. This information is anonymous and cannot be associated to any individual or organization. To disable Update Notification, set the 5. New and Changed Features
Here is an overview of some of the new features in this Express build of Sun Studio compilers and tools. Note that most of these features may not yet be documented in the Sun Studio man pages in this build. Project D-Light The objective of Project D-Light is to make sophisticated application and system profiling, accessible. There are many tools that profile applications and there are other tool that profile the system stack, but there are few tools that can join these views into an easy to use interface. For the first time, you can optimize your application and system environment by visualizing performance bottlenecks and resource contention up and down the application system stack. Using an intuitive drag 'n' drop interface, Project D-Light provides an extensible library of instruments that represent the latest advances of profiling technology, including dynamic tracing (DTrace). With instruments like CPU accountant to Sampler, developers can use the interactive GUI to quickly profile and peer into the runtime behavior of their applications. You can view a demonstration of Project D-Light shown at JavaOne. For more information on using D-Light refer to the Project D-Light Tutorial As with all features in Sun Studio Express, Project D-Light is pre-released software, and an early one at that. The goal of including this pre-alpha feature into Sun Studio Express is to get community feedback and direction to drive its development. While there has been tremendous innovation in profiling techniques and tools, understanding application behavior, as it relates to its system environment, can be tricky proposition. With your help, Project D-Light can provide the illumination necessary to maximize the application stack. 6. Additional Notes
(Last updated June 4, 2007)
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