[aplusdev] AIX port

[John.Mizel at morganstanley.com]

Hi Blake,

Which compiler will you be using? Internally we used to build for AIX
using XLc (3.25 and 4.1) . If you look in a/s.c you will see the define
HPC_PWR2 (also see a/pwr2hpc.h), which covers optimizations specifically
for the power architecture. It shouldn't be too difficult to get this
running.

Most recently we have been building A+ on AIX using gcc.  We have it
compiled, but have problems on startup with initialization of static data
members.  We suspect it is a problem with the link and are working with
IBM to get it resolved.

Thanks,
John

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Blake Yeager/Austin/Sector7 wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I've been asked to look at porting A+ to AIX. One of your Web pages includes
> the following statement: "John Mizel developed a manageable build process
> and worked out porting issues beyond the early SunOS and AIX versions." The
> reference manual also mentions AIX, yet there is no binary distribution.
>
> Can anyone comment on the technical issues of doing this port?
>
> Thanks,
> Blake
>
>