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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Simon Clubley wrote 2014-09-14 03:44:
> 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.
>
>

Editing and (cross-) compiling on another platform is
reasoanble easy. Cross-linking gets far more complicated
when you need a lot of resident libraries from 3'rd party
suppliers (such as Rdb) beeing available for the linker.

And you can (have been done) have IDE running on your normal
desktop with compile/link using *on* VMS. If integrated well,
it doesn't matter this it compiles on VMS.

Jan-Erik.