[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-05-07, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> In article <pcpbhq$4sr$1 at dont-email.me>,
> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>Has anyone ever looked to see what work would be involved in getting
>>Free Pascal (https://www.freepascal.org/) to run on VMS ?
>
> No vax or Alpha back ends.  Looks like it's just built with lex and yacc.
>
> Might be possible to port to VMS on x86, although there are still going to
> be a lot of changes to deal with shared libraries.
>
> Porting to vax or Alpha would be much harder.
>
> Why bother, though.  What's wrong with gnu Pascal?

GNU Pascal is a dead project (the latest release was 12 years ago)
and I cannot see how well the latest version supports VMS.

I would also need to find a port of gcc 3.4.4 from that era which
supported VMS. However, the impression I get (which may be wrong)
is that the VMS code is from when VMS was a primary target for gcc.

The download link takes me to http://www.gnu-pascal.de/alpha/ which
describes the downloads as Alpha test versions which doesn't fill
me with confidence. :-)

Also, Free Pascal itself is starting to interest me. See my next
message (in reply to John).

Simon.

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