[Info-vax] LaTeX etc. on VMS

[Craig A. Berry]

On 10/13/19 6:46 AM, Richard Levitte wrote:
> https://www.tug.org/texlive/
> 
> TeX Live seems to be *the* dist du jour.
> 
> I have no idea whatsoever what kind of work is needed to bring it up
> to speed on VMS. It might be simple, it might be a major pain in the
> darker regions... I wish I had the time, but sadly, I'm already majorly
> sucked in elsewhere.

The prerequisites are here:

<https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlbuild.html#Prerequisites>

For starters, it needs C++11, so it's unlikely ever to build on Alpha or
Itanium, and it's likely a year or two before it could even be attempted
on x86_64.