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AIX 5L Porting Guide

An IBM Redbooks publication

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Published on 25 July 2001

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ISBN-10: 0738422053
ISBN-13: 9780738422053
IBM Form #: SG24-6034-00


Authors: Richard Cutler, Allan Cheng, Jacob Hsu, Jesper F Ljungberg, Peter Nutt and Michael Perzl

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    Abstract

    This IBM Redbooks publication 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 book 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 book assumes the reader is familiar with the C and/or C++ programming languages and UNIX operating systems.

    Table of Contents

    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

     

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