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Linux® on the Mainframe
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Linux® on the Mainframe

by John Eilert, Maria Eisenhaendler, Dorothea Matthaeus, Ingolf Salm
June 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
Pearson
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18.4. What you need

This section summarizes which resources you will need for a porting project.

The skills required for porting an application to Linux on the mainframe are common software development skills. Your development team also needs the skills to use the Linux application development tools required to build your application. The standard Linux development tool chain (for example, compilers and editors) is included in the mainframe Linux distributions.

The GNU compiler and binary utilities can be configured to support a cross-compile environment. In cross-compiling, the target platform of the compilation is not the platform wherethe compilation runs. Application code can be compiled on a PC or low-end server but targeted to the zSeries ...

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