[Info-vax] make vs. MMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <8a84da92-46b7-43f8-b507-0a12184e3d3dn at googlegroups.com>,
David Jones <osuvman50 at gmail.com> writes: 

> 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.

It's Fortran90, amazingly enough.  However, that might still apply.