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# Building Hercules-390 for AIX 5.3 *PRELIMINARY
## Contents
1. [About](#About)
2. [Process](#Process)
3. [ToDo](#ToDo)
## About
This document gives instructions and information on how to build Hercules-390 for AIX v5.3.
## Process
1. Standard AIX systems do not have autoconf, automake, zlib or bzip2 libraries and headers; these can be downloaded from and installed using rpm (rpm is part of AIX 5.3).
Autoconf/automake require some pre-requisites, such as gettext, info, m4, libsigsegv and expat; all these could be downloaded and installed from the same place.
2. Enter the configure and make commands to build/install Hercules:
```
./configure && make && make install
```
(or you can run each command separately if you want).
3. That's it! Enjoy your private mainframe. :)
The above is based on efforts done by Alexey Bozrikov [bozy@fgm.com.cy], Harold Grovesteen [h.grovsteen@tx.rr.com] and Fish [fish@softdevlabs.com] on the [Hercules-390 Yahoo group](https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/hercules-390) list during the month of October 2009.
## ToDo:
The followings items are still remaining to do:
- Get SCSI tape working: resolve `` header & `struct mtget` issue(s).
```
#if defined( HAVE_STRUCT_MTGET_MT_GSTAT )
#else // !defined( HAVE_STRUCT_MTGET_MT_GSTAT )
#endif // defined( HAVE_STRUCT_MTGET_MT_GSTAT )
```
- Test networking (did you do this yet Alexey?).