topic Re: Trouble compiling c program in Operating System - HP-UX

Trouble compiling c program

William Pribble — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:09:28 GMT

We are migrating from a 11.11 PA-RISC system to an 11.23 Itanium system.

We have some custom program written in C that we will need to recompile on the Itanium system.

The method to compile these programs on the 11.11 PA-RISC system was
$ cc -Wall program_name.c -o program_name

This syntax is not working on our Itanium 11.23 system.

Here is the error I get on the 11.23 Itanium system.

cc: error 1914: bad form for `-W' option

The C compiler on the 11.11 PA-RISC system is B.11.11.12 C-ANSI-C Compiler

The C compiler on the 11.23 Itanium system is
C.06.15 C/aC++ Compiler

I believe it has to due with the new options in the C compiler, but I am looking for some help from you excellent folks on finding a slolution.

Thanks
Bill

Re: Trouble compiling c program

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:17:01 GMT

Hi Bill:

Have a look at:

http://docs.hp.com/en/14487/options.htm

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Trouble compiling c program

Raj D. — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:45:23 GMT

Bill,

Also take a look at the release note if you can fid something for W option:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B3901-90031/B3901-90031.pdf

Hth,
Raj.

Re: Trouble compiling c program

Steven Schweda — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:28:43 GMT

> $ cc -Wall program_name.c -o program_name

> The C compiler on the 11.11 PA-RISC system
> is B.11.11.12 C-ANSI-C Compiler

Really? "-Wall" sure looks like a GCC
option. I'd try to verify which C compiler
you're actually using. (Unless "B.11.11.12
C-ANSI-C Compiler" is more GCC-compatible
than I'd expect it to be.)

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.4.2/gcc/Warning-Options.html

Re: Trouble compiling c program

Dennis Handly — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:49:20 GMT

As Steven said, -Wall is an invalid option for HP-UX compilers and valid for GNU.

For Integrity, the closest option is +wlint.

It appears that the PA C compiler incorrectly parses this as: -Wa,l
Which is ignored unless you are assembling a .s file.

>C.06.15 C/aC++ Compiler

This is obsolete, the latest patch is A.06.23.

Re: Trouble compiling c program

dirk dierickx — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:21:38 GMT

you can also get gcc for hpux itanium if you must use it. ofcourse, it's possible that when you use the correct flags, your program won't compile because each compiler has his dialects (even between gcc versions, although it will mostly manage these).

so in the end, the easiest solution might be to just go for gcc.

Re: Trouble compiling c program

Steven Schweda — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:32:47 GMT

> [...] go for gcc.

Certainly, it makes sense to use a command
which is appropriate for your compiler. If
you wish to use the HP compiler, then use a
command which that compiler understands. If
you wish to use a GCC-compatible command,
then use a compiler which can understand that
command. GCC, for example.

The obvious next mystery would be why you're
using that particular command. While it may
have worked better with the older HP
compiler, it never was really appropriate.

Re: Trouble compiling c program

Dennis Handly — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:06:03 GMT

>Steven: why you're using that particular command. While it may have worked better with the older HP compiler, it never was really appropriate.

Because the driver didn't give an error?
Right. These two are connected.