This posting aimsThe aim of this post is to document how go about gettingthe setup of a development host on Solaris.
A "development host" is one where you have all the appropriate tools to build and compile C or C++ applications.
Putting development tools such as a compiler onto a host significantly increases the attack surface of that host so in my opinion you shouldn't have them on hosts that face the outside world. They also take up some disk space.