I'm trying to compile a C program using gcc on AIX 5.3L but I seem to be
missing a mysetrious library, libmsaa, which is nowhere to be found on my
system.

Any clues please?

Thanks
Neil

$ make dostats
INFORMIXC=gcc esql -DHAVE_GNU_GETOPT=1 -o dostats dostats.ec
getopt.c
gcc: unrecognized option '-qchars=signed'
gcc: unrecognized option '-q64'
gcc: unrecognized option '-qlanglvl=ansi'
gcc: unrecognized option '-qalign=natural'
gcc: unrecognized option '-qcheck=nullptr'
gcc: unrecognized option '-qmaxmem=-1'
gcc: unrecognized option '-qspill=2000'
collect2: library libmsaa not found
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

Stop.

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> writes:

> I'm trying to compile a C program using gcc on AIX 5.3L but I seem to be
> missing a mysetrious library, libmsaa, which is nowhere to be found on my
> system.

It is pretty obvious that that library was added by Informix 'esql'
to the link. Check your Informix installation to make sure it
is complete.

> $ make dostats
> INFORMIXC=gcc esql -DHAVE_GNU_GETOPT=1 -o dostats dostats.ec
> getopt.c
> gcc: unrecognized option '-qchars=signed'
> gcc: unrecognized option '-q64'

It is also clear that Informx esql is "brain-damaged" (or at least
was not intended to be used with gcc): all of the above options
are xlc-specific.

Also note that '-q64' implies 64-bit compile, but the gcc compile
you are using is 32-bit (add -maix64 for gcc).

Perhaps you do have 64-bit libmsaa after all (somewhere in the
Informix tree), but it is being ignored for 32-bit compile?

Cheers,
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