[Info-vax] VSI plans to offer an IA64 to X86 binary translator similar to AEST?

[Craig A. Berry]

On 3/19/19 12:49 PM, Rod Regier wrote:
> We have internally coded build procedures for source programs that
> would have to be bootstrapped before we could compile from scratch
> from the source on a new OpenVMS architecture.
> 
> We used AEST in our early phase A=>I64 bootstrap to accomplish that.
> 
> We don't have separately coded procedures to build our build tools
> only using OS components and compilers.  Didn't need them up to now
> since VEST and AEST were available for the early phase.
> 
> Thus our interest in a binary translator for IA64 to X86 for
> OpenVMS. (IEST?).

Did you manage to get on the list for the v9.0 field test kit?  As I
understand it, building anything for it involves using a cross-compiler
on Itanium.  That's how OpenVMS X64 (or whatever the marketing name will
be) is getting built initially, right?

If you don't have access to the initial field test (the later ones are
expected to have native compilers, I believe) then open a ticket with
VSI and see if you can get access to the cross compilers used to
bootstrap VMS and see if it can bootstrap your build procedures.