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

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On Tue, 2023-09-05 at 12:28 +0000, 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 ?

CMake doesn't know anything about VMS, especially file versioning.
That'll make it fun to port for the poor devil who's going to have to
do the work!
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