[Info-vax] MariaDB/MySQL on x86

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/24/2023 8:33 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 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.

MariaDB 5.5 is from 2012 and went EOL in 2020.

Old indeed in general IT. Not quite as old in the VMS world.

And I think it is quite OK functionality wise.

The only think that comes to my mind as missing is the
JSON support in newer versions.

>> 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

That explains why they have not been ported yet.

>> 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.

I don't think anyone will miss traditional VMS C++.

It is so far behind.

Arne