ILEvator can be installed in various ways with more or less effort depending on the choice.
From Source
The prerequisites for building ILEvator from source are at least IBM i OS release 7.3, access to
the IFS of your IBM i server, ILE C and RPG compiler and gmake.
gmake can be installed via yum.
If all prerequisites are met you can either download or clone the Git repository to your IBM i server.
You start building the project just be executing gmake. By default the library ILEVATOR will
be created and all objects will be placed in that library.
Build Options
You can change the target library by passing the parameter BIN_LIB to the gmake command.
gmake BIN_LIB=MY_IV_LIB
By default the project will be built for the current release of the system. You can specify the
target release version by passing the parameter TARGET_RLS to the gmake command.
gmake TARGET_RLS=V7R3M0
No compile listing will be output to the console during the build. To get a compile listing you
need to pass the parameter OUTPUT to the gmake command.
gmake OUTPUT=*PRINT
If the module and service program needs to be rebuilt you can pass the target ext (for building
all external dependencies) and compile to the gmake command.
gmake ext compile
Single modules can be compiled by passing the module file name to the gmake command.
gmake request.rpgmod
For just building the service program execute the target ilevator.srvpgm.
iPKG
But you don’t need to build the service program by yourself. There is already a prepackaged version of ILEvator available at the iPKG RPM repository at https://repo.rpgnextgen.com.
You just need to download the [iPKG client] and follow the instructions at https://repo.rpgnextgen.com.
First create the library to you want to install ILEvator into. Just execute the install command for
installing ILEvator.
ipkg install ilevator
This will install ILEvator in the default library IPKG. To specify another library just add the
parameter IPKGLIB.
ipkg install ilevator ipkglib(MY_IV_LIB)
The copybooks can also be installed with iPKG.
ipkg install 'ilevator-devel'
The copybooks are packaged as stream files. By default the install command will try to install
them in /usr/local/include in the IFS. You can change the target location by passing the location
as a parameter.
ipkg install 'ilevator-devel' loc('/home/mihael/include')