Re: Quick survey - how well structured are your RPG apps?

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello James,

You wrote:
>Something that seems to be blocking the development of such a framework is
>the lack of a good build utility.  As I develop with ILE (which is great
>to have) I am frustrated that there isn't a build utility like make.  I
>have various modules and service programs that may or may not need to be
>recompiled.  I may need to check that required software is installed (like
>autoconf does).  I need a *simple* way to list dependencies.  It is simple
>to type 'make' and then 'make install'.  As far as I can tell no such
>thing exists for the AS/400.

Investigate the TMKMAKE tool in QUSRTOOL.  You will need the C compiler but 
that's no 
longer such a big deal since you get 30 (or 70) days before the license expires 
so just 
install it from your CDs and compile the tools.

If you really want an RPG tool then convert the C source to RPG IV.  That 
should n't be 
too hard since a good 90% of the C functions can be invoked from RPG IV so all 
you would 
be creating is the structure to hold it all together.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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