[Info-vax] Making Open Source Tools Work for VMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <j018pcF1dl2U1 at mid.individual.net>, Jon Schneider
<jon at jschneider.tenreversed> writes: 

> I would really like to see a developers' guide Wiki for OpenVMS for 
> those of us, and I think there are quite a few, who have been writing 
> software for decades yet don't have a feel for doing so under (Open)VMS.

It would be nice if there were some sort of standard BUILD.COM which
would do everything (perhaps with parameters to determine whether one
wants to use supplied .EXE, link supplied .OBJ, or compile from supplied
sources).  When finished, it can print out the required symbol
definition (which one would presumably place with others), command to
add the HELP to some library (ideally one would have a separate HELP
library for such third-party products), and so on.