Re: Successfully compiled 1.3.1 on AIX 5.2 /w Visual Age C++ 6.0 after some tweaking

[David Sugar]

True...looks like the only other place its needed is in string.h.  Done.

address@hidden wrote:
> In misc.h the pragma pack is wrapped with "#if defined(__GNUC__) || 
> !defined(__hpux)" but it isn't in cc++/string.h.  The easiest fix would be to wrap 
> it also.
>
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Sugar [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:54 PM
> To: Horrell, Ronald (Card Services)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Successfully compiled 1.3.1 on AIX 5.2 /w Visual Age C++
> 6.0 after some tweaking
>
>
> I should add we need a reliablle define to test for VA compiler.  I 
> believe we currently use an _AIX macro to detect and select some aix 
> specific things, but I would not want to apply that macro check alone as 
> some of these changes would break using gcc on aix.  The behavior of 
> pragma pack(unpack), for example, is specific to the VA compiler.
>
> address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >         I was finally able to successfully compile version 1.3.1 on AIX 5.2 /w 
> > Visual Age C++ after some tweaking.
> >
> > System Details:
> >
> >   Compiler: VisualAge C++ Compiler Version 6.0.0.5
> >   OS: AIX 5.2.0.0
> >
> > C/C++ Flags: 
> >
> >   "-qcpluscmt" or "-+" Allows C++ comments "//" in C files.  
> >   "-qlanglvl=redefmac" Allows macros to be redefined without #undef "_THREAD_SAFE"
> >
> > configure Flags:
> >   "--enable-static --disable-shared": Personal preference
> >   "--without-exceptions": Needed due to use of "dynamic_cast without RTTI" 
> > error.
> >
> > config.h:
> >   HAVE_SYS_LIBCSYS_H: Had to be commented out due to errors with memcopy 
> > declarations.
> >
> > libtool:
> >   "${CC/${host}-}": "bad substitution error" (lines 904 and 1297) had to 
> > comment out check.
> >
> >
> > 	With these changes it compiles and runs successfully.  
> >
> >
> > Note:
> >   The VisualAge C++ Compiler doesn't like "#pragma pack()" and gives numerous warning 
> > messages. With this compiler you would need to do "#pragma pack(nopack)" instead.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ron Horrell
> >
> >
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