gcc for AIX are widely available.
At the moment of writing, AIX supports two different native C compilers,
-for which you have to pay: B<xlc> and B<VAC>. If you decide to use either
+for which you have to pay: B<xlC> and B<vac>. If you decide to use either
of these two (which is quite a lot easier than using gcc), be sure to
upgrade to the latest available patch level. Currently:
- xlC.C 3.1.4.0
- vac.C 4.4.0.3 or 5.0.2.0
+ xlC.C 3.1.4.10 or 3.6.6.0 or 5.0.2.6
+ vac.C 4.4.0.3 or 5.0.2.4
Perl can be compiled with either IBM's ANSI C compiler or with gcc.
The former is recommended, as not only can it compile Perl with no
Before installing the patches to the IBM C-compiler you need to know the
level of patching for the Operating System. IBM's command 'oslevel' will
-show the base, but is not always complete:
+show the base, but is not always complete (in this example oslevel shows
+4.3.NULL, whereas the system might run most of 4.3.THREE):
# oslevel
4.3.0.0
bos.rte 4.3.2.0 COMMITTED Base Operating System Runtime
#
-As a side note, perl cannot be built without bos.adt.syscalls installed
+The same might happen to AIX 5.1 or other OS levels. As a side note, perl
+cannot be built without bos.adt.syscalls and bos.adt.libm installed
- # lslpp -l | grep syscalls
- bos.adt.syscalls 4.3.3.50 COMMITTED System Calls Application
+ # lslpp -l | egrep "syscalls|libm"
+ bos.adt.libm 5.1.0.25 COMMITTED Base Application Development
+ bos.adt.syscalls 5.1.0.25 COMMITTED System Calls Application
#
=head2 Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX
All defaults for Configure can be used.
If you've chosen to use vac 4, be sure to run 4.4.0.3. Older versions
-will turn up nasty later on. For vac 5 be sure to run at least 5.0.1.0.
+will turn up nasty later on. For vac 5 be sure to run at least 5.0.1.0,
+but vac 5.0.2.3 or up is highly recommended. Note that since IBM has
+removed vac 5.0.2.1 and 5.0.2.2 from the software depot, these versions
+should be considered obsolete.
Here's a brief lead of how to upgrade the compiler to the latest
level. Of course this is subject to changes. You can only upgrade
On AIX 4.3 using vac, we continue:
- # lslpp -l | fgrep 'vac.C '
- vac.C 4.4.0.2 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler
- vac.C 4.4.0.0 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler
- # grep 'vac.C.4.4.0.*.bff' other.ll
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 45776101 1 13466624 May 26 1999 vac.C.4.4.0.1.bff
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 45776101 1 13473792 Aug 31 1999 vac.C.4.4.0.2.bff
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 45776101 1 13480960 May 19 20:32 vac.C.4.4.0.3.bff
- # wget ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/fixes/v4/other/vac.C.4.4.0.3.bff
+ # lslpp -l | grep 'vac.C '
+ vac.C 5.0.2.2 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler
+ vac.C 5.0.2.0 COMMITTED C for AIX Compiler
+ # grep 'vac.C.5.0.2.*.bff' other.ll
+ -rw-rw-r-- 1 45776101 1 13592576 Apr 16 2001 vac.C.5.0.2.0.bff
+ -rw-rw-r-- 1 45776101 1 14133248 Apr 9 2002 vac.C.5.0.2.3.bff
+ -rw-rw-r-- 1 45776101 1 14173184 May 20 2002 vac.C.5.0.2.4.bff
+ # wget ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/fixes/v4/other/vac.C.5.0.2.4.bff
#
-Then execute the following command, and fill in its choices
+Likewise on all other OS levels. Then execute the following command, and
+fill in its choices
# smit install_update
-> Install and Update from LATEST Available Software
- * INPUT device / directory for software [ vac.C.4.4.0.3.bff ]
+ * INPUT device / directory for software [ vac.C.5.0.2.4.bff ]
[ OK ]
[ OK ]
=head2 Using GNU's gcc for building perl
-We're working on this using gcc-3.0 ... (any input highly appreciated)
+Using gcc-3.0 (tested with 3.0.4) now works out of the box, as do
+recent gcc-2.9 builds available directly from IBM as part of their Linux
+compatibility packages, available here:
+
+ http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/
=head2 Using Large Files with Perl
H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
-Structure copied from README.hpux
-
=head1 DATE
-Version 0.0.3: 12 Jul 2001
+Version 0.0.5: 22 May 2002
=cut
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