On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 12:11:51 -0500, McKown, John wrote: >I have it downloaded. Haven't had time to get it working. > Aren't you cycle-poor?
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) >> >> GCC? >> Cbttape 482? I downloaded it. Straightforward install. "Hello World\n" compiles and runs. But before I got my hopes up, I had some conversation here with the developer: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1107&L=ibm-main&P=R57939&1=ibm-main > Are they Unix System Services-friendly (source, header, and > object files)? GCCMVS is for MVS, not USS, and I don't know much about USS. However, Dave Pitts distributes something for USS. > Are they GNU autoconf-friendly? I don't know what that entails. > Are they, at least optionally, ASCII-friendly? (I.e. what does > the preprocessor do for "#if '0' == 48"? z/OS C/C++ has at > least an ASCII mode in which cpp says, "yes". But the runtime > libraries are incomplete.) There is much open-source software > available which is difficult to deal with because of EBCDIC- > centric compilers. An enormous effort has been made by multiple people in order to turn GCC into what you may call an EBCDIC-centric compiler. > What runtime libraries are available? X11? Curses? Sockets? > Others? Only the C standard library is provided. > LE? Dave Pitts distributes something for that, but I'm not really familiar with that. My focus has been on ensuring that the basic compiler is able to be hosted on a pure MVS environment (not USS), and that it has a suitable C runtime library that conforms to the MVS rules so that you can write utilities, and that GCC should be I wasn't much inspired. Not my favorite kind of dinosaur. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
