[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[DaveFroble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ugh, ....  what's wrong with John Reagan Pascal?

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