HP XPADE compatibility with HP-UX 11.0 on HP-UX 11.0 (9000/800/L3000-8x).

[Gd2]

Hi All,

I happened to know that XPADE could be used to compile PA-RISC applications on HP Itanium server.

I have a bunch of C Applications that use Sybase 11.9 and SQR 3.0 (ancient version) and runs on HP-UX 11.0 at HP-UX 11.0 (9000/800/L3000-8x) servers. I would need to port it at HP-Itanium server running HP-UX 11.31.

I cannot recompile the code at HP Itanium because SQR libs and Sybase drivers wont compile at HP Itanium. Also since HP Aries emulation runs only binaries and I expect frequent fixes to be done, it might not be a viable choice.

I was suggested that XPADE might compile PA-RISC 11.0 code at HP ITanium server. I have the following doubts -

1) Can XPADE compile HP-UX 11.0 code?

2)Reading the XPADE documentation It seems that I Should port it first to HP-UX 11.11 and then use XPADE?


3) If XPADE is able to compile and link Hp-UX 11.0 code, then should I run executables via Aries?

4) Any help on a step by step guide to port the HP-UX would be reallly helpful

Please help

[Emil Velez]

sounds like a job for HP 9000 Containers. It lets you do things like compiling and creating PA risc executibles with PA libraries on itanium.

[Dennis Handly]

>1) Can XPADE compile HP-UX 11.00 code?

Only if it compiles without changes on 11.11, just try it.

>2) I should port it first to 11.11 and then use XPADE?

Just use XPADE to do the "port" in one step.

>3) should I run executables via Aries?

That's your only choice.

>4) a step by step guide to port the HP-UX would be really helpful

Just start compiling and if you have problems, then we can address them.