Re: Shared libraries

[William Ahern <william@...>]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:01:22PM +0100, Justin Cormack wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
> <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> >> I believe the reason why the Lua team doesn't want to "fix" the default
> >> Makefile is because it's already a hassle just to maintain the existing
> >> rules.
> >
> > Althuough this is not the reason for not supporting shared libraries,
> > it is a hassle to maintain the existing Makefile rules.
> >
> > The supported platforms are:
> >    aix ansi bsd freebsd generic linux macosx mingw posix solaris
> >
> > Of those, we don't have ready access to these:
> >         aix bsd freebsd solaris
> > and so the corresponding Makefile rules may not be up to date or optimal.
> >
> > A previous thread on this subject did not produce much feedback:
> >         http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-05/msg00353.html
> >         http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-06/msg00252.html
> >
> 
> You can get free access to AIX from IBM, you just need to sign up as
> an IBM partner, can give you more detailed info if you want - they
> give you a machine for a week at a time as often as you like.

I did this the other day and apparently the only way to reach the system is
by first installing a Java-based Cisco VPN client. I wasn't too keen on
installing it, even though my instance had already been activated.

It's a shame, too, because I was super excited to fire up an IBM i instance
and use a 5250 terminal emulator.