Re: [Fwd: Re: [Quickfix-users] quickfix on AIX]

[Hans B. <han...@ma...>]

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 11:11, Harjinder Singh Dhanjal wrote:
> QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX FAQ: http://www.quickfixengine.org/wikifix/index.php?QuickFixFAQ
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
> 
> > Harjinder Singh Dhanjal wrote:
> >> but now i came accross one problem. i have to write a fix gateway which
> >> will be developed & tested on c++ on linux, n will be finally to be
> >> deployed on AIX Platform.
> >
> > Good! You are the first one to do this, I guess. Another platfrom
> > QuickFIX is running on.
> >
> >> i just want to confirm. that compilation on AIX will produce the results
> >> as expected & same that of linux. in short terms will it portable from
> >> linux to AIX.
> >
> > I guess AIX 5 will be quite Linux compatible. Which AIX version to do
> > intend to use?
> AIX 4.3
> 
> i have no prior experience in AIX as such.

Maybe this helps a bit: it's what I had to do to get it running on
Solaris 8:

Needed to install (see http://www.sunfreeware.com/) with the standard
pkgadd tool: 

zlib-1.2.1-sol8-sparc-local 

libiconv-1.8-sol8-sparc-local 

libxml2-2.6.4-sol8-sparc-local 

libtool-1.5-sol8-sparc-local 

ruby-1.8.1-sol8-sparc-local 

gcc-3.4.1-sol8-sparc-local 

rubyunit-0.5.6.tar.gz (source package: unpack with gtar and run 'ruby
install.rb' as 'root') 

Adjust LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH environment variables, so that the
/usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin (where gcc is installed) are before
the old directories. 

I had to unpack the quickfix-x.x.x.tar.gz for each build with different
options. Once compiled without options it failed to compile after
running configure with mysql option. It seems not everything is
overwritten.(Maybe run 'bootstrap'?)

All C++ and Java unit and acceptance tests ran without failures.
With MySQL support, make sure the MySQL server is running and accessible
as the user running the test. Otherwise I've got 4 failures in the C++
unit tests. (this also happened on Linux).

Hans Bausewein