Is anyone working with libuv on z/OS?

[shzhoujq]

I've been doing some testing on the z/OS port of libuv, from https://github.com/ibmruntimes/libuv/tree/v1.x-zos. I've run into several minor problems, and I'm wondering if anyone else is actively working with this code. If so, should we consider creating a libuv forum?  Here are the issues I've encountered:  It's hard to build. I couldn't put myself through the pain of spinning up autoconf on z/OS, so I hacked a Makefile manually.

• src/unix/process.c uses environ, which for some reason was causing the z/OS binder to ABEND when I tried to statically link against libuv.a. I replaced that with clearenv and a putenv loop.  
• uv_execpath (in in src/unix/os390.c) was failing with an assertion failure after calling BPXnGTH, which in turn caused a lot of test failure.s I'm not entirely sure what the problem was, but replacing some shift/mask code in the assert with references to fields in a union solved the problem.  

Anyway, I now have all but three of the tests passing and I'm about to move on to trying some Real Work(tm). Any other libuv-on-z/OS users out there? 

Note: This question has been migrated from the IBM DeveloperWorks community "IBM SDK for Node.js". It was originally posted on Jan 14, 2017 by user JerryCallen.

[shzhoujq]

The official libuv v1.x branch has now accepted the z/OS port, and can be built on z/OS. libuv v1.x is available at https://github.com/libuv/libuv/.