[Info-vax] Modern software development for VMS, was: Re: source control and semantics (Re: Why so much Unix envy?)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-13, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
> ACT got their gcc Ada compiler working on VMS by first creating a
> cross compiler on Linux. When I was trying to duplicate ACT's VMS
> port of gcc using the public gcc kits (ACT have their own private
> gcc tree) I got as far as using a cross compiler running on Linux
> (the target triplet was alpha-dec-vms IIRC) to build some C programs
> to run on VMS and which ran ok on Eisner.
>
> With that setup (and assuming a public gcc kit which actually works
> on VMS) then many of the usual embedded/cross compiler development

Oops, typo. Sorry. :-)

s/on VMS/for VMS/

The idea is that the cross compiler and development environment runs
purely on Linux and only the final generated executables run on VMS.

> environments become available for VMS development and you can choose
> whichever one you want.
>

Simon.


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