Re: Tn5250 compile under IBM Aix 5.3

Hi James , my principal goal was to compile TN5250 under AIX for do a port
on the Iseries under PASE environnment. :-)
My first try under Iseries and GCC failed (mainly for ncurses libs)so i've
started to compile it under AIX..
It could be very interesting to have it working under PASE and Iseries.
One more information, if someone of you needs a "spare" AIX or Iseries
system IBM has the Virtual Loaner program where you can have absolutely free
of charge a remote IBM Power system for some days ( max 2 weeks) also for
porting/compiling needs. you need only a IBM account (that is free too).
This is what i am using now for my tests.
Hope this helps :-)
Ciao.
Alberto.

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On Thu, 13 May 2010, Scott Klement wrote:

Well, I've certainly compiled code in PASE so that it creates a binary
in AIX fashion that will then run in PASE.

but I've never taken the binary and tried to run it on an AIX system.
Theoretically, it seems like it should work -- but I haven't done it.

I'm setting up my System i to run gcc in PASE so I can test. I don't know
how close it is to mimicking a real AIX system, but it is probably better
than nothing.

James Rich

if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
- Paul Davis on ardour-dev