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

[John E. Malmberg]

John Reagan wrote:
> "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.)
> 
> While I don't know for sure, I'll guess that newer versions of the CRTL have 
> now included support for routines like realpath() that required user-written 
> jackets in the past.  You might want to try having the compiler not prefix 
> realpath and see what you get.

Most things require GTK+ 2.x, not 1.2 now.

When Eisner gets back up, you will be able to find most of the 
components to GTK+ 2.x in the FTP directory.

Currently there are only alpha binaries in that FTP directory.

-John
wb8tyw at gmail.company
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