[Info-vax] GCC for VMS, was: Re: fortran compiler roadmap?

[Craig A. Berry]

In article <kl823c$8u1$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

> Success: I now have gcc built as a cross compiler on Linux and it is
> outputting simple executable which run on VMS:
> 
> $ sh sys/noproc
> OpenVMS V8.3  on node EISNER  24-APR-2013 02:38:50.85  Uptime  36 11:11:53
> $ r hello.exe
> Hello world

Very cool.  How different is cross compiling a simple program from 
cross compiling the compiler itself?

 
> I probably will not be spending much more time on this so this is as far
> as I am likely to go.

I do wish you would continue, but I understand it's likely more than a 
single afternoon's work to have something worth sharing.