[Quickfix-developers] Quickfix vs AIX

[John G. <joh...@wa...>]

Hi,

If anyone has experience compiling or using Quickfix on AIX 7.x (or even 
6.x would help I guess), I would be glad to have some feedback.

As I reported a few years ago to this list, we had no real problems 
compiling Quickfix on AIX 5.x. and it has been in production for all this 
time. I left Fix support for a few years, in the meantime they had a few 
issues with multithreading (which is quite specific on AIX) and now I am 
back with the task of compiling Quickfix on AIX 7 because our clients are 
migrating/upgrading their OS platforms.

This has been a nightmare through the whole process, from trying to 
install gcc and g++ (I had different issues with 9 different gcc versions, 
which I guess entitles me to setting a record of some sort), then 
seemingly getting hit by a /bin/as AIX assembly bug as well as 
libstdc++.so version woes.

I had quite a few issues on an AIX 6.x and can not get to compile there 
either.

More details are of course available but this is already a lengthy mail.

Currently, we are pursuing two options:

- try and run the binaries compiled on AIX 5.x on AIX 7.x, including 
libstdc++.so.5 and libgcc_s_ppc64.a (shr.o) as reported missing by ldd. I 
think it should work but when we will get a coredump in production, we 
will always be wondering whether it comes from our code or just 
compatibility issues and this worries me.

- download (done) and install (not succeeded yet) a demo version of IBM's 
XLC/C++ compiler and if this works just get a licence.

We are currently using quickfix-1.12.4, I added a few #include <cstdio> 
when gcc 4.x started complaining, I could not get the latest quickfix 
version to compile out of the tar.gz but I would not think it is the main 
issue.

Thanks in advance,
John GALLET