Thanks for the clarification Martin. On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 04:56, Martin Ward <mar...@gkc.org.uk> wrote:
> On 11/05/2020 23:05, Frank Myers wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I installed the z390 emulator and assembler on Linux. I tried to assemble > > some of my code, but found that It was not recognizing my Macros. I > copied > > them into the z390/mac directory, but still it does not find my Macros. > > * Is there a required step to preprocess or register macros before they > can > > be used? Or do the macros need to adhere to a fixed record length? Or > > perhaps only a subset of IBM Assembler Macro language is supported? Or > > perhaps some other magic?* > > I wrote the original z390.pl perl script for running z390 on Linux. > To tell z390 where your macros are you need to add the sysmac option > after the filename. For example, I created a subdirectory foo with > a macro file in it and then to assemble the source file UDATECNV.MLC > I ran: > > z390 -a UDATECNV.MLC 'sysmac(.+foo+/home/martin/lib/z390/mac)' > > /home/martin/lib/z390 is where I have installed z390: > this is needed so that z390 can find its own macros. > Note that the sysmac option will override the existing option: > there is no way to say "add this directory to the existing > search path". Note that "+" is used as the list separator. > However: if you want to set up your own system wide extra macro > directory you can edit the default options line in z390.pl: > > my $sysmac = "$dir/mac+."; # Default macro search path > my $syscpy = "$dir/mac+."; # Default copybook search path > ... > my $options = "'sysmac($sysmac)' 'syscpy($syscpy)'"; # default options > > Also: all macro files must have the extension .MAC in upper case. > > -- > Martin > > Dr Martin Ward | Email: mar...@gkc.org.uk | http://www.gkc.org.uk > G.K.Chesterton site: http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc | Erdos number: 4 >
