AIX 5L Porting Guide

This redbook details the types of problems most likely to be encountered when porting applications from other UNIX-based platforms to the AIX 5L Operating System.

When porting an application to a new operating system there are things you have to know and questions you have to ask, such as:

- What programming models are available?
- How are threads implemented?
- What link options do I need?
- Why do my makefiles not work any more?

We have tried to condense all of these questions (and answers) into one document, and this redbook is the result. It has been designed to provide guidance and reference material for system and application programmers who have been given the task of porting applications written in C and/or C++ to the AIX 5L operating system. This redbook assumes the reader is familiar with the C and/or C++ programming languages and UNIX operating systems.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Endianness - byte ordering
Chapter 3. Issues regarding 32-bit and 64-bit
Chapter 4. Setting up the development environment
Chapter 5. Porting
Chapter 6. Makefiles and the make command
Chapter 7. System functions
Chapter 8. The compilers
Chapter 9. AIX shared objects and libraries
Chapter 10. POSIX threads
Chapter 11. C++ Templates
Chapter 12. Test and debug

Publish Date
25 July 2001

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Author(s)
Richard Cutler
Allan Cheng
Jacob Hsu
Jesper F Ljungberg
Peter Nutt
Michael Perzl

ISBN
0738422053

IBM Form Number
SG24-6034-00

Number of pages
640

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