Porting SCO/C to HPUX/C

[Anne Holmes]

I will shortly be porting two small C programs from SCO Unix to a new HPUX 11i environment (the programs connect to a Sybase database server). Is the HPUX bundled C compiler likely to be adequate or will I need the ansi C version? Does anyone know what porting problems I'm likely to come across?

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

i do not believe in the bundled compiler for a good solution.

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,2504,00.html

Shows the HP Laguages available and if you open the links that interest you there are all sorts of interesting documents to help you.


Steve Steel

[John Poff]

Hi,

If you are going to do C programming on an HP-UX box, you will definitely need to buy the ANSI C compiler. The bundled C compiler that comes with HP-UX is just for relinking the kernel.

As for any porting problems, it depends on what you are doing in your code. If you have kept things pretty standard you should be fine. I remember that the SCO C compiler used to be based on one from Microsoft.

JP