[024] MVS 3.8: A C Programming Workflow

I discovered a neat way to do C development from Linux for MVS 3.8 when I was looking at a project Tommy Sprinkle maintains. Links to get the bits you need:

[MatthewMainframes]

UPDATE: Mike Großmann pointed out the problem with the native Linux build of jcc: the behavior I was seeing was due to the system include files that come with jcc having DOS line endings instead of Unix line endings. Running dos2unix on all of them makes the jcc 32-bit Linux binary work correctly. So... no need for all the wine shenanigans!
UPDATE 2: Further testing by Soldier of Fortran reveals that there still seems to be problems with the Linux binary. In simple cases it works, but on more complex projects there are problems with the generated assembler code...the occasionally missing character, wrong characters, etc. Weird. Back to wine it is, then!

[russelldicken]

Excellent piece of work. Greatly appreciated.

[mbroholm]

Great video. I’m tempted to make a CMake version of this project

[mikegrossmann]

On TK4- the JES2PARM member isn't located in SYS1.PARMLIB but in SYS1.JES2PARM.

[BuildWall]

Clever idea and great demonstration. I'm brand new to Hercules/MVS. I assume people in the community have contacted the JCC developer to ask about releasing the source since he has seemingly abandoned development?

[Stosszahlansatz]

Could it be that 01A had to be vary online before the $s rdr2?

[polluks]

Nice makefile, however you should define CFLAGS instead of INCLUDE, just use the built-in rules for source files.

[wiseguy]

A very helpful video. Thank you. One question though. JCC lacks many of the more common include files, which hinders the development of a more advanced software. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[MarcoAntoniotti]

Very cool.

Just a question... what "terminal" app (or "program", just to give away my age) are you using?