[Info-vax] Building Perl on VAX

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-07-11 14:12:43 +0000, Daniel Sundqvist said:

> Yeah I see no point in maintaing a current Perl version with VAX 
> support. But it's sad that the last version still supporting VAX don't 
> even build. Maybe a patch would be of value for some people, like VMS 
> hobbyist.
> 
> As a hobbyist who wan't some practical usage of my VMS system, a 
> webserver like WASD with Perl 5 CGI support would enable some basic web 
> development and web hosting on the system.

Use DCL for your CGI.  Or build and use Perl prior to 5.22.  Or use 
some other language.  Or see the previously-referenced link to the 
description of what was changed and what was removed at Perl 5.22—when 
OpenVMS VAX support was removed—and retrofit that, if you really want 
to build and use 5.22.  You'll learn a whole lot about computing from 
the last millennium here, too.


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