Shibboleth Developers

["Martina Tedford" <>]

Scott,

I was referring to the IDP, my apologies my initial email was unclear.

I take it from your email that the Shibboleth IDP software will run on
windows 2003 x64 version and
it will also run on solaris 10? 

Many Thanks

Martina

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Cantor 
[mailto:]
 
Sent: 11 October 2006 15:56
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Subject: RE: Hardware/software queries to run shibboleth

> A) I understand there are 2 versions of windows 2003, one geared 
> towards the 32 bit processor, whilst the other version is targeted at 
> the 64 bit processor. Will shibboleth work on either of these 
> operating systems, most importantly will it work on the windows 2003 
> x64 platform.

I can't tell whether you mean SP or IdP and they're completely
different.
The IdP runs anywhere a standard JDK and Tomcat work.

I have no idea whether the SP runs on 64 bit Windows, and I don't have
anything I can test it on. It's built with a very old 32-bit compiler,
so if it runs, it only runs incidentally. It would seem questionable
that a 64-bit IIS process could load a 32-bit filter DLL without a
thunking layer and any number of other issues arising.

The 1.3 code does not build cleanly on a lot of 64-bit compilers,
including Microsoft's. 2.0 should build cleanly, but testing it is
probably out of my hands, I don't have the hardware or the time.

> With respect to the unix box, we are planning on purchasing an entry 
> level server. The server we are wishing to purchase is shipped with 
> the latest version of solaris, which is Solaris 10. Will shibboleth 
> work on Solaris 10 and if so, which version of shibboleth will this 
> be?

1.3 builds on all versions of Solaris I've tried it on but usually with
a lot of effort to build it, especially on x86 Solaris. I use Sun's
compiler exclusively, but the SDSS folks do gcc builds. It's not a fun
platform to deal with for open source and out of the box it's horrid
because so many GNU commands are missing.

-- Scott