[Info-vax] VSI C/C++ compiler for OpenVMS expired yesterday!

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-09-05 14:28, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-09-04, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We are now using those 1st generation native compilers to build the 2nd generation
>> native compilers except for C++.  We're still doing the Linux thing for now as the LLVM/clang
>> build needs things like CMake (which of course is written in C++ and needs to be bootstrapped
>> with a C++ compiler).  Those 2nd generation compiler builds are done on OpenVMS x86 V9.2-1
>> systems on a hypervisor.  Testing is also done on virtual machines.
>>
> 
> I was wondering if CMake on VMS was a reality yet. :-)
> 
> Are you hitting any specific problems with getting CMake to run on VMS, or
> is getting CMake working just simply lower down the priority list, given
> that you have the Linux-hosted workaround available ?

I wouldn't be surprised if CMake is more of a headache than most 
compilers. CMake is much more intimately interacting and interfacing 
with the OS. A complier is mostly very OS unaware.

   Johnny