[Info-vax] MariaDB/MySQL on x86

[Craig A. Berry]

On 4/24/23 5:18 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 4/24/2023 6:12 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> On 4/22/23 5:38 AM, issinoho wrote:
>>> Has there been any talk on this being ported?
>>
>> The C++ compiler that will be necessary to make it even theoretically
>> possible is still in field test and only became available quite
>> recently.  One can hope, but we won't really know until someone does the
>> work.
> 
> MySQL/MariaDB runs on VMS Alpha and VMS Itanium.

Yeah, but only versions that are near or past EOL.

> All that is needed to build for VMS x86-64 in the same
> version (5.5) as on the other two should be a traditional VMS
> compiler. Isn't C++ available as cross compiler?

Doesn't look like it, according to this:

https://docs.vmssoftware.com/docs/vsi-x86-64-cross-tools-kit-installation-and-startup-guide-v92.pdf

> It has explained stated that getting newer versions of
> MySQL/MariaDB (10.x and 11.x) running on VMS require compiler
> with support for newer standards - aka need clang.

And clang++ is the only C++ there will be for x86.