[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 05/07/2018 05:34 PM, Chris wrote:
> 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.\

That's the P-System, not the Compiler.  The compiler only
generates P-Code for the P-System.  And, unless you plan
to work with Version II.0 or earlier I believe licenses
are still rather expensive.

bill