[Info-vax] GTK and/or up-to-date OpenVMS Porting Library for IA64?

[Richard Maher]

Hi Steven,

> Suggestions (other than "Stay on Alpha.")?

Sounds like a job for HP/VMS's Grand-Poobah of "Strategic Middleware and
Busy-Work" and his merry bunch of Free-Timers! (Or was it you do the work
and he manages you? I guess I just never understood the business model)

EDS-merger, GFC, Synergy, Efficiency, Scrutiny, Redundancy - Could be a
motivational perfect-storm.

On a more serious (yet still useless) note, I thought a resultant
HP/VMS-supported GTK was one of the reasons those such JF were claiming
having three web-browsers on VMS was ever so useful?

Regards Richard Maher

"SMS" <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4629bab0-f288-4e9e-b136-d47082765216 at l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
>    I was trying to do something useful on an IA64 system (VMS
> V8.3-1H1), when I noticed that I hadn't rebuilt Vim since I
> copied things over from an Alpha system.  So, I tried to build
> Vim, but that failed because I hadn't rebuilt GTK either.  So,
> I tried to build GTK, but that failed because the kit I have
> ("GTK+ Version 1.2.10-A1 for OpenVMS Alpha") has conflicts
> between the VMS_JACKETS.H and the IA64 system header files.
> (For example, realpath() causes spewage of %CC-W-MISPARAMCOUNT
> and %CC-E-NOTCOMPAT.  I stopped there.)
>
>    I'd guess that there's a GTK kit more modern than the only
> one I've found so far:
>
>    http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/gtk.html
>
> or an OpenVMS Porting Library kit more modern than the only
> one I've found so far:
>
>    http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/porting.html
>
> Suggestions (other than "Stay on Alpha.")?