compilers for HPUX

[tiyyagura sunil reddy]

hi,

I would like to know if there are any other commercially available c/c++ compilers for HPUX other than provided by HPUX itself.

Thanks in advance
sunil

[H.Merijn Brand (procura · Accepted solution]

Non commercial GNU gcc is a full ANSI compliant C, C++ compiler and widely available for HP-UX, amongst which on my pages

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and on HP's porting center:
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gcc-3.3.2/

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Colin Topliss]

GCC is the way to go in my opinion. I use that over the HP compiler whenever I can.

On top of GCC though, you'll need GNU make (rather than depend on the make that gets shipped with HP-UX). The HP version of make is not compatible with GCC, and will cause you all sorts of weird errors.

Col.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The free compiler that comes with HP-UX is referred to as the Bundled compiler. It speaks only K&R C and is really only intended for building kernels. HP also offers HP ANSI C amd aCC. The ANSI C compiler does K & R C and ANSI C. aCC does ANSI C and C++. Neither of these is free.

Gnu C is also an option but my experience has been that the optimizer is not nearly as good as with the HP compilers. If execution speed is of great concern the I would use the HP compilers. On the other hand, not that many UNIX processes are CPU bound so it may make no real difference.

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi Sunil,

GNU gcc compiler is the most extensively used compiler for HP-UX.

You can get it from:
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gcc-3.3.2/

hth.

[tiyyagura sunil reddy]

Hi all,

Thanks for ur time in answering my question. I would like to make the question a bit clearer. I wanted to ask whether there are any commercially available c compilers for HPUX other than Provided by HPUX and GNU.

Thanks in advance
sunil

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Just for curiosity.

What are you looking for a priced compiler when you are a free one available?

I have not yet come across any till now.

[Mark Anderson_6]

There used to be the KAI compiler, which was supposedly quite good and very ANSI compliant (I believe the KAI team was responsible for most of the pre-processor core that's used by many ANSI compilers, including GCC). KAI was purchased by Intel a few years ago, and I think they pretty much killed off all the non-x86 compilers (but I could be wrong). www.kai.com redirects to Intel now, but perhaps someone at Intel could give you more information.

I have to imagine there are others out there, built with an eye toward optimization for scientific problems, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're all dead by now... :(

[Duraid Madina]

If you want a commercial-grade compiler, you could get Comeau Computing ( http://www.comeaucomputing.com/ ) to port their compiler to HP-UX for you, but that is quite expensive (between $5000 and $50000, see http://www.comeaucomputing.com/custom.html )

This would get you an excellent C++ compiler (superior even to GCC and aCC in terms of language support and compliance) and quite good performance, since the Comeau compiler uses a native C compiler as a back-end. So, if you asked Comeau to support HP ANSI C as the back-end, performance would be very good, but you would lose a few C++-specific optimizations.

Personally, I'd love to see Comeau's compiler on HP-UX 11.23...!

[Dennis Handly]

>I would like to know if there are any other commercially available C/C++ compilers for HP-UX

None that I know of.  There isn't likely enough money in it.  Nor can they beat HP's compilers for performance.

>I'd love to see Comeau's compiler on HP-UX 11.23

Comeau is based on EDG and that's what aCC6 is based on.