8.7. VLINK or TLINK Compile Problems

The latest version of vlink.c and tlink.c have been compiled on the following systems:

   AIX 4.1
   BSD2.0 (Pentium/x86)
   Debian GNU/Linux
   Digital Unix (OSF/Alpha)
   FreeBSD 2.x, 3.x, 4.x
   IRIX 5.3, IRIX 6.1
   OpenBSD 2.7
   Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0
   SCO OpenServer 5.x
   Solaris 2.x (Sun compiler and GCC)
   Solaris 7 (Sun compiler and GCC)
   SunOS 4.1.4

Some problems may occur. In general, ignore warnings about pointers.

Make sure that you have run the configure program in the src directory. If you use Interchange's makecat program, it will try to compile an appropriate link at that time, and will substitute tlink.pl if that doesn't work.

You can compile manually with the proper settings with this series of commands:

   cd src
   ./configure
   perl -e 'do "syscfg"; system ("$CC $CFLAGS $DEFS $LIBS -o tlink tlink.c")'
   perl -e 'do "syscfg"; system ("$CC $CFLAGS $DEFS $LIBS -o vlink vlink.c")'

There is also a compile_link program which has documentation embedded and which will compile an appropriate link. If you cannot compile, try using the tlink.pl script, written in Perl instead of C, which should work on most any system. Since vlink needs to have values set before compilation, a pre-compiled version will not work unless it has the exact values you need on your system. If you can use the defaults of 'localhost' and port 7786, you may be in luck.