IRIX

Current OpenSSL, OpenSSH, curl and zlib for IRIX 6.5, and the drivers and agent that run it under an emulator, as inst packages. Every package is built and tested on IRIX 6.5.22 with MIPSpro 7.4.

Packages

OpenSSL

The newest OpenSSL 3, in /usr/local/openssl. IRIX’s own is far too old for TLS 1.2 or 1.3.

Coming soon

OpenSSH

The newest OpenSSH portable release, in /usr/local/openssh, built against the OpenSSL and zlib packages.

Coming soon

curl

The newest curl, with TLS from the OpenSSL package and HTTP/3 through nghttp3 and ngtcp2.

Coming soon

zlib

The newest zlib, in /usr/local/zlib. IRIX ships 1.0.4, which OpenSSH and curl refuse.

1.46 November 2026

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nghttp3

The HTTP/3 library curl is built with.

Coming soon

ngtcp2

The QUIC library curl is built with.

Coming soon

vioser

A virtio-serial driver: byte channels between an IRIX guest and its emulator, with no UART, network or disk involved.

Coming soon

p9fs

A virtio-9p filesystem: mount a directory of the emulator’s host on the IRIX guest.

Coming soon

QEMU Guest Agent

A native QEMU Guest Agent for IRIX, speaking over vioser: the host can ping, query and exchange files with the guest.

Coming soon

Installing

Software Manager

Open a .tardist link in Netscape on IRIX and it hands the package to Software Manager. This site and its downloads also work over plain HTTP, at http://irix.xn--verfg-nva.bar/, for browsers that can’t do current TLS.

inst

Or install it from a shell, as root; inst reads the .tardist as it is:

/usr/sbin/inst -a -f zlib_modern-1.3.1.tardist -I zlib_modern