[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Chris]

On 05/07/18 16:53, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-05-07, John Reagan<xyzzy1959 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Why not the VSI Pascal compiler? (Other than it not being free or open source?)
>
> My primary interest here is not VMS but that would have been a nice bonus.
>
> I've been looking for alternatives to C which are supported on a wide
> range of targets, including bare metal targets.
>
> My preferred choice would be Ada but the freely available compiler
> situation with Ada is absolutely horrible when you want to do more
> than desktop Linux or Windows programming.
>
> It's unclear at this stage how usable Free Pascal is in a bare metal
> environment, but it's clear that it has been designed with support
> for a wide range of environments in mind.
>
> As such, I am planning to spend some time in the future trying out
> Free Pascal and was curious if anyone had ever looked at porting
> it to VMS.
>
> Simon.
>

No idea what state it is in, but how abut the UCSD P system compiler ?.
I know it is very old and a bit clunky but it was designed to
be easily ported. I remember one company who built a whole range
of apps programmed using the system.

Another way might be to write a slip layer library to interface
between an existing Pascal compiler and a different language run time
library for the target system...

Regards,

Chris