Re: Porting C programs written for AIX

this is our include section (which I am seeing referenced with err CZM0280)

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sqludf.h>
#include "veapi.h"
#include "vefpe.h"

jim

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Jim Franz <[email protected]> wrote:

> (previously posted in midrange-l with very little response)
>
> Working on a proof of concept project to port a aix implementation of C (I
> am told it is C, not C++ but wouldn't know the diff if it hit me in the
> face..)
>
> Large multi platform company, we are the only Power i in the mix of AIX
> and MS-SQL and .net.
> The C code is an encryption package where we can all pass data back and
> forth (and we do a lot of that)  but handle the encryption of sensitive
> info. They have written C wrappers around a package of C from HP called
> Voltage.
> We have the source for the wrappers, but compiling the C on "i" not
> working. We have solved the includes issues, but getting down to messages
> like line 47 :
>
>    39     1 |    int      status = 0;
>                                               |
>    40       |    char *newformat[30];
>                                                            |
>    41       |
>                                        |
>    42     2 | if (SQLUDF_NULL(text_ind) || SQLUDF_NULL(format_ind))
> {                                          |
>    43     3 |        *out_ind = -1;
>                                                  |
>    44     4 |        return;
>                                                             |
>    45       |    }
>                                                                 |
>    46       |
>                                        |
>    47     5 |    strcpy( newformat, (char *) format)
> ;                                                         |
>    47     5 +    (__strcpy((newformat),((char *) format)))
> ;                                                   +
> ===========> ..............a.............................................
> ......................................
> *=SEVERE==========> a - CZM0280  Function argument assignment between
> types "char*" and "char**" is not allowed.
>    48     6 |     if (strcmp( (char *) format, "ShortDate" ) == 0 )
> {                                          |
>    49     7 |         int result = 0;
>                                               |
>    50     8 |      result = GetYear(text);
>                                                      |
> ===========> ...............a............................................
> ......................................
> *=WARNING=========> a - CZM0304  No function prototype given for
> "GetYear".
>
> IS there a conversion of source needed to ILE C?
> Is line 40   char *newformat[30];    correct - I can't find anything like
> that in google...
>
> Thanks
> Jim Franz
>
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