Maybe use the 0.73 sources though 😀

For me the compilation process was as straightforward as for linux when
i tried it a good while ago, some keyboard issue (scancodes wrong) but
otherwise sort of working.

Feel free to keep us informed in this thread.

Thanks a lot for your reply.
I have already ported dosbox-0.73 in solaris both in sparc and x86. There is one issue of porting dosbox 0.73 in sparc. keyboard scancodes do not work well in default config in sparc. So i need to set 'usescancodes' to false in source code in case of sparc. Is it fine?

It's fine if you can assure that on a non-us keyboard everything works as
expected (sdl reports language-translated keycodes on some systems like
linux and always-us keycodes on others like windows).
The best-thing-to-do would of course be adding to the scancode mapping
in sdl_mapper.cpp (tables like sdlkey_map at the top of the file, and some
processing at the bottom).

Presently i'm doing it in a simple way. I'm checking system architecture in my Makefile and if i get 'sparc' then i'm applying a patch in dosbox source code. The patch is :

--- dosbox-0.73/src/gui/sdlmain.cpp.orig Mon Jun 8 14:26:37 2009
+++ dosbox-0.73/src/gui/sdlmain.cpp Mon Jun 8 14:27:13 2009
@@ -1515,7 +1515,7 @@
Pstring = sdl_sec->Add_path("mapperfile",Property::Changeable::Always,"mapper.txt");
Pstring->Set_help("File used to load/save the key/event mappings from.");

- Pbool = sdl_sec->Add_bool("usescancodes",Property::Changeable::Always,true);
+ Pbool = sdl_sec->Add_bool("usescancodes",Property::Changeable::Always,false);
Pbool->Set_help("Avoid usage of symkeys, might not work on all operating systems.");
}

Updated patch for dosbox 0.74

I'll have to unpack my SparcClassic and give it a try. I've been searching for years for the SunPC software but it's impossible to find. You can get the 486 and 5x86 cards easily enough but without the software they're pretty much useless.