[Info-vax] OpenVMS 9.1 C Compiler

[Andrew Brehm]

On 23/09/2021 23:50, Mark Daniel wrote:
> On 23/9/21 11:02 pm, John Reagan wrote:
>> On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 6:04:17 AM UTC-4, Andrew Brehm wrote:
>>> I finally found time to install OpenVMS 9.1
>>>
>>> I got it to run on vSphere (configuring the serial port in vCenter was annoying) and managed to install OpenSSH.
>>>
>>> Then I noticed that while a pascal command exists, cc is missing.
>>>
>>> Is a C compiler not done yet? I couldn't find a package.
>>>
>>> Or am I overlooking something?
>> There are no native compilers for V9.1.  Not even a native Macro.
>>
>> You need to use cross-compilers that host on Itanium.
>>
>> The base OS has always included some compiler DCL verbs (goes all the way back to VAX) but the compiler installation would provide a newer version.
>>
>> We are working on native compilers now but don't have a firm date.  For instance, we've been building native pieces of GEM using the cross-compilers. 
> 
> That casts a shadow over native compilers for V9.1(-A? - due end of this month?) and further over V9.2 (2021 2nd half - max three months away).
> 

Indeed.

Everything else is excusable (no web server, no database server etc.) but an OS must have a shell and a compiler or assembler for some language at a minimum.

I hope 9.2 will be complete.

Other than that I was not too unhappy with 9.1. Installation is quite fluent (even if a bit annoying with the serial connection) and the boot manager is very nice.