Okay, maybe I'm mixing things up. So 'tainers are doable, assuming the program can first compile to s390x? What about code that does CPU instruction set specific things. How likely is the success of its compilation on s390x with minimal work. If it's "easy", why is the IBM Z and LinuxOne Open Source list not bigger - https://www.ibm.com/community/z/open-source-software/
- KB ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, April 25th, 2022 at 7:41 AM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23/4/22 14:10, kekronbekron wrote: > > > > Building the s390x containers is straight forward. > > > Again, really? (honest question). > > > Are there any public examples for reference? > > > You know, small enough that it isn't 50 million lines of code or > > > something. > > > I don't want to speak for Matt but building docker images for a specific > architecture is trivial. To build a s390x container that includes native > binaries you just compile/link you programs and then build the docker > image scrom scratch and specify the --platform. See > https://docs.docker.com/desktop/multi-arch/. > > > - KB > > > > ------- Original Message ------- > > On Friday, April 22nd, 2022 at 9:49 PM, Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org > > wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 22, 2022, at 3:42 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > If you already deliver container images that support your product > > > > > that currently run outside z/OS, or if that’s what you plan to do, > > > > > it’d be a great idea to add s390x compatibility to your container > > > > > images so your customers have greater deployment flexibility. That’s > > > > > usually quite easy to do. > > > > > Good advice. I would also add that if you are a vendor planning to > > > > > deliver zCX container images then make sure you add other > > > > > compatibilities just in case your customers don't run zCX. It could > > > > > be a POC obstacle. > > > > > > Building the s390x containers is straight forward. It’s the POC > > > challenge. It’s like showing up with SAE tools to work on a car that is > > > metric. Not going to be very useful. > > > > > > Matt Hogstrom > > > m...@hogstrom.org > > > +1-919-656-0564 > > > PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 > > > Facebook https://facebook.com/matt.hogstrom LinkedIn > > > https://linkedin/in/mhogstrom Twitter https://twitter.com/hogstrom > > > > > > “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." > > > — Hogstrom > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
