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Before you buy.
Included are gnu-make,bison,flex,gnu-awk,gzip,glib, and some other
utilities. Plus there is a compiler/binder front end that works like cc
supporting long filenames to shield you from the library/file.member
syntax.
Since I am a PC programmer for the most part, I am much more
at home working with the Visual Age product and find it to be a big
improvement over ILE/C. It is a PC program, so all source files
reside on the PC. You are free to use subdirectories,
long file names and don't need to deal with source physical files
at all. I am using the same tools to maintain my PC source and my
AS/400 source (Visual Slick Edit, Borland Make etc). In fact much
of the source is common to both AS/400 and PC projects.
Visual Age C++ v3.5 for Windows also ships with the compiler
but it isn't needed. You do need client access however since it
is used to communicate with the compiler back end on the AS/400.
The first phase of the compiler works very much like a PC compiler
so the editor is able to jump to compiler errors and so on. It generates
an intermediate object which is uploaded to the AS/400 and converted
to a *MODULE by the compiler back end. Its faster than uploading the
source to the AS/400 and compiling it there as I was doing with ILE/C.
A programming guide and user's guide ship with the compiler
and can be viewed on line at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/7eng44.htm
You should be able to get an idea of what the product is like by
browsing the user's guide. Also, I recall that our IBM rep mentioned
that a demo CD was available so you might be able to get an evaluation
version from IBM.
A few messages back someone mentioned that the Visual Age compiler
was being discontinued. I find that hard to believe since much of
OS/400 is written in it. My guess is that they were refering to
the V3R7 release. The version we bought was V4 and can only target
V3R2 or V4R2 or higher.
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