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I need to install NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net) on corporate zLinux server (SLES 11 SP 3 on z/OS machine).

Here are the inputs:

  1. I have root
  2. I don't have compilers there (gcc or g++) and I doubt I can get them installed
  3. I don't have support from any other admins (on the project my primary responsibility is development, and because of lack of resources I have to do Linux set up myself)

So, my options are:

  1. Find NSIS binary rpm for SLES on s390x platform - probability close to 0
  2. Set up some other PC machine with compiler and cross-compile - probability close to 0.001 as I never had a deal with compilers and cross compiling
  3. Find Wine binary rpm and after install transfer NSIS MS Windows binaries to zLinux machine - probability close to 0.01% as seems Wine also not popular application for Linux on z/OS platform <== It was a mistake Wine requires Intel processor, it can not run on zLinux

Any help is highly appreciated.

UPDATE: 

file /bin/ls
/bin/ls: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, IBM S/390, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
Barat Sahdzijeu
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No guarantees, but you could try Debian's s390x nsis binaries. See https://packages.debian.org/nsis for the packages themselves (try various vintages, I don't know what versions of SLES match the libraries on Debian) and Easily unpack DEB, edit postinst, and repack DEB for instructions on unpacking the packages without using Debian tools.

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Stephen Kitt
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  • Thanks for the suggestion. I was able to find binary RPM earlier and it requires glibc6, which not installed on machine, and so on.. Lots of dependencies, which yum can not handle automatically. For now I gave up, it's beyond my possibilities. – Barat Sahdzijeu Apr 08 '15 at 13:42