We tried it out. But, it seemed to be too tedious to be honest. Too many changes have to be done to Makefile to make it work, apparently.
Anyways, thank you all for your advice in this matter! Yasir ----- Original Message ----- > From: Harley Laue <losinggenerat...@gmail.com> > To: Primary ioquake3 Discussion/Development list <ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org> > Cc: Yasir I. Al-Dosary - zgzg2020™ <yasiraldos...@yahoo.com> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 12:51 AM > Subject: Re: [ioquake3] Compiling on IBM Power5 using the IBM compiler > > It's probably also worth noting that various *_CFLAGS (also the > OPTIMIZEVM & OPTIMIZE values and maybe others) may need to be tweaked > if the IBM compiler doesn't use the GCC style arguments (or doesn't > understand them.) I don't know much about that compiler, so the > options provided may work. > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Zack Middleton <zturtle...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> The CC variable in the Makefile sets the compiler executable name. CC >> is set different in the Makefile depending on platform. You might be >> able in override it using `make CC=nameOfCompilerExecuteable' (I > can't >> remember if this works), otherwise you could edit the Linux section of >> the Makefile modifying `CC=gcc' to use whatever the IBM compiler >> executable name is. >> >> Hope this helps, >> Zack Middleton >> >> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Yasir I. Al-Dosary - zgzg2020™ >> <yasiraldos...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I am trying to compile on an IBM Power5+ machine. It went well when I > used >>> gcc compiler. >>> However, I would like to use the IBM Compiler. Does anyone know how to > set >>> the makefile for it? >>> >>> I am still unused to Linux environment, so I would highly appreciate > not >>> using shortcut explanations : ) >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Yasir >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ioquake3 mailing list >>> ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org >>> http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org >>> By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl. >> _______________________________________________ >> ioquake3 mailing list >> ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org >> http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org >> By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl. > _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
