#7 ibcs64

[Giordano Contigiani]

hi Russel,
I have poked around in your ibcs / abi works.
you did a great job!
I have been using an old version of ABI modules on Centos 5.5 for several years to run a complex SCO Unix 5 application.
I tried to compile your ibcs64 work on Debian 9.8 but found several obstacles for kernel differences (4.9).
Your most recent work (ibcs-us) is fine for most applications, except one that manages the license, I couldn't get it to work.
if I may, could you tell me on which version of debian did you compile the ibcs64 project?
thanks

[Russell Stuart]

if I may, could you tell me on which version of debian did you compile the ibcs64 project?

I don't remember, but the last bug fix was in 2011, so I'm guessing it was Debian Sarge.

(ibcs-us) is fine for most applications, except one that manages the license, I couldn't get it to work.

That's surprising. Is the licence manager likely doing something odd, like copy protection? If so, the issue is may be caused by ibcs-us modifying the binary on the fly. I am working on a version that doesn't do that.

[Giordano Contigiani]

thanks for the quick reply.
I tried to compile the ibcs64 project with debian 10, then switched to 9 and finally to 8.
but the differences of the headers are not very easy to solve (especially for me who know little about the linux environment).
for now I continue to use my old VM centos 5.5 where the abi modules work fine.

for the ibcs-us project, I have not investigated thoroughly, but I believe that my binary application makes some strange calls, the company that made the application no longer exists, so I have no support and I have to keep it that way.

in the future, if I find some time, I will try to compile the ibcs64 project again !!
thanks for the support