[Info-vax] OpenVMS 9.1 C Compiler

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-09-24 kl. 14:08, skrev 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.

Now... VSI has been *very* clear about the situation around compilers.
I do not understand why you complain about that now or why you expected
anything else than what has been clearly communicated.