Re: How to get Pase Binarys??

Thanks Guiseppe.

Don't know if you are also on Midrange-L so no other option as this.
We have someone downloading the product.
Hope it will not be to difficult to use the tools.
Have people from our University to figure things out and they just learned that 
iSerie means 'type of computer'.
If people feels to help them, you are most welcome. 

Regards,
Eduard.

----- Original Message ----
From: "beppecosta@xxxxxxxxxxx" <beppecosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2007 10:57:58 AM
Subject: Re: How to get Pase Binarys??

Are there posibilties to create binarys from source when
we do not have a AIX environment?

YES. First install 5799-PTL, gnucc (and/or vac++): then 
you can build (almost) everything from (open)sources.

For example on our 890 V5R3 we recently built binaries for 
libtiff, libjpeg, libpng, leptonlib, jbig2, python and 
gnupg.

Other binaries like ghostscript for example can be 
downloaded and execuded immediately.

But we encountered a lot of problems; for example a gnu 
version was fine for a compile but failed for another, 
some modules (like "snprintf") were missing and had to be 
installed and compiled separately (and the original source 
had to be modified accordingly), and other minor problems.

Some opensource can also be ported directly in native CLE. 
For example zip and libtiff can run fine in native 
environment, but in this case you have to write yourself 
the ebcdic/ascii conversion when needed.

Good luck !!
  
Giuseppe.