ESQLC CISAM AIX C compiling problem

I am in the process of porting all my programs from an old SCO box to a RISC running AIX 4.3.3. I have a file which compiles and links a C programs. The C programs use ESQL (to access a db) and read CISAM files. So I have ESQL C and CIsam. How I used to do it on the sco box is shown below. I'd preprocess using ESQL and then compile and link with CIsam and ESQL C libraries. But now I want to do the same on AIX. I obviously need to replace the -lsco, but with what? I am stumped. I am no C guru! Here is the command file from SCO. (all system files for ESQL and CISAM are in identical directories on the RISC. I also have AIX C). esql -e $1.ec gcc $1.c 'Lusr/informix/lib/esql -L/usr/lib -I/usr/informix/incl/esql -I/use/include -lsql -lgen -los -lsco -lisam -o $1 When I run it on AIX, substituting gcc with xlc and leaving off -lsco I get a number of errors complaining about undefined symbol ._gl_im_x and .gl_is_x and .ASF_x where x is some string of characters. Can anyone offer any clues? Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

Kate Juliff wrote: > I am in the process of porting all my programs from an old SCO box to a > RISC running AIX 4.3.3. > I have a file which compiles and links a C programs. The C programs use > ESQL (to access a db) and read CISAM files. So I have ESQL C and CIsam. > How I used to do it on the sco box is shown below. I'd preprocess using > ESQL and then compile and link with CIsam and ESQL C libraries. > But now I want to do the same on AIX. I obviously need to replace the > -lsco, but with what? I am stumped. I am no C guru! > Here is the command file from SCO. > (all system files for ESQL and CISAM are in identical directories on > the RISC. I also have AIX C). > esql -e $1.ec > gcc $1.c 'Lusr/informix/lib/esql -L/usr/lib -I/usr/informix/incl/esql > -I/use/include -lsql -lgen -los -lsco -lisam -o $1 > When I run it on AIX, substituting gcc with xlc and leaving off -lsco I > get a number of errors complaining about undefined symbol ._gl_im_x > and .gl_is_x > and .ASF_x > where x is some string of characters. > Can anyone offer any clues? The first step is to always link ESQL/C programs with the ESQL/C script esql. Anything else causes lost hairs at the next upgrade. You should probably be using: INFORMIXC="gcc" esql -o $1 $1.ec -lisam to compile and link in one swoop. You should be using a sensible (Bourne, Korn, Born-Again) Shell, of course, and not a C Shell derivative; the latter won't recognize an environment variable set on the command line. Using xlc should work fine, too. The undefined _gl* and _ASF* symbols arise because your ESQL/C library lists are way out of date -- and the lost hairs arise because the library lists change at almost any and almost every release. You'll have to work out what was in -lsco and either rewrite that code for AIX or use AIX features equivalent to the SCO features. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.95 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>