[Info-vax] Rust and VMS

[John Reagan]

On Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 10:46:38 AM UTC-5, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <sretlu$ask$1... at dont-email.me>, jan-erik.... at telia.com
> (Jan-Erik Söderholm) wrote: 
> 
> > Start looking and listening to some of the webinars published by 
> > VSI. Many of them have updates on the LLVM/VMS status.
> To summarise broadly, only fairly old versions of LLVM will build for 
> IA-64 VMS. VSI have been gradually bootstrapping LLVM on x86-64 VMS using 
> that, with the obvious objective of a modern self-hosting LLVM on x86-64. 
> Once that is complete, getting Rust running on it should be reasonably 
> straightforward. 
> 
> John
Well, Rust is written mainly in Rust so the bootstrapping will be interesting but
no different than the bootstrapping we are doing now for clang/llvm.  We're
using LLVM 10.0.1 for our initial bootstrap (with some subsequent bugfixes
we cherrypicked).