[Info-vax] make vs. MMS

[David Jones]

On Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 5:20:41 AM UTC-4, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In general, how difficult is it to get something which works on linux 
> and is built via a make file to work on VMS via MMS? The code itself 
> should run OK on VMS, it's just the build procedure I'm concerned with. 
> 
> Up until now, I've dealt with my own code, code for others written with 
> VMS in mind, or simple codes (compile, link, run) written for other 
> operating systems (but intended to be portable, so just the build is 
> VMS-specific). I now want to use a rather large code not written by me 
> and probably never run on VMS.

The first big hurdle is that the actions will be unix commands and not VMS
command lines. It's not trivial to refactor a series of conditionally added
-Dmacro command line options into a single /define=(...) for the VMS C 
compiler.