[Info-vax] Rust and VMS

[John Reagan]

On Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 11:02:15 AM UTC-5, plugh wrote:
> On Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 8:46:38 AM UTC-7, 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
> I think we start here? 
> https://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1Triple.html 
> I'm guessing the videos Jan Erik points to also hold clues.
As we move to put the code back to LLVM, we'll create a real OpenVMS triple.
Today we are just using a generic tuple.

$ show sys/noproc
OpenVMS XG4C-H4S  on node X86VMS    9-JAN-2022 11:37:14.50   Uptime  4 20:48:41
$ clang --version
clang version 10.0.1 (git at bitbucket.org:vms_software/llvm-10.0.1.git 9de667ac5f86bc2e4a3ba7d9071c0ebbdc756b21)
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: DKA100:[JREAGAN]