Tasks for advanced installation

Before you perform an advanced installation, you must make sure that you have a user account with administrator privileges and that your system meets all system requirements. You might also want to uninstall any previous versions of XL C/C++ on your system. After you have finished installing the compiler, you must confirm that the installation has been successful and enable the man pages of the compiler.

The recommended procedure for advanced installation is outlined in the following table.

Table 1. Steps for advanced installation: new or upgrade installation
Task References
Become either the root user or a user with administrator privileges. Documentation supplied with the operating system
Ensure that all system prerequisites are satisfied. System prerequisites
If you do not need to maintain multiple versions of the product on your system, remove any existing versions of XL C/C++ for AIX®. Uninstalling XL C/C++

Use the nondefault installation script to install the compiler.

If you are installing the compiler on an IBM® PASE system, use the nondefault installation method.

Nondefault installation procedure

Installing on an IBM i PASE system

Confirm that the compiler packages have been successfully installed, and test the installation.
Enable the compiler man pages. Enabling the manual pages
If your system locale, encoding, or both are not en_US, enable the compile-time error messages. Otherwise, you can skip this step. Enabling the XL C/C++ error messages


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