[Info-vax] compile for VAX 8650 system

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-06-07, imniklason at gmail.com <imniklason at gmail.com> wrote:
> The company I work for currently has a contract to support code
> running on a VAX 8650 system, we need to find some way to compile Ada,
> c, and assembly (not sure exactly which versions, can find out if
> necessary) for the VAX 8650 system. We have looked into emulation,
> acquiring our own VAX 8650 system, and using a cross compiler, but so
> far we have not had any luck with any of these approaches. I am
> writing this to see if any of you fine folks have any suggestions as
> to how we might proceed.

What problems have you hit ?

What product versions (including VMS) are in use ?

Is this DEC's Ada 83 compiler or one of the third party ones ?

Unless you want to work on the production system directly, your main
problem is going to be acquiring licences for the software versions
in use and duplicating the production environment on your development
system. Does your client have a spare system you can use for development ?

I would suggest you talk to one of the commercial VAX emulator suppliers
as they will understand the issues involved. I cannot make any
recommendations however because I've only used a free VAX emulator.

Simon.

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