[Info-vax] Groovy on VMS x86-64

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/17/2023 8:12 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Just tested. Groovy 4.x works fine on VMS x86-64.
> 
> groovy.com:

> groovydef.com:

It works fine on VMS Itanium and VMS x86-64 with Java 8.

It does not work on VMS Alpha as it has only Java 5.

But I did a little research. Groovy 2.2 runs on
Java 5 and therefore on VMS Alpha.

Get the jar files and stuff them in [.lib],
copy groovy-starter.conf from a newer Groovy to
[.conf] and use the same groovy.com (customized
for location, version and Java) and groovydef.com.

And it works.

$ dir [...]

Directory DISK2:[ARNE.groovy]

groovy-2_2_2.DIR;1  groovy.com;1        groovydef.com;1

Total of 3 files.

Directory DISK2:[ARNE.groovy.groovy-2_2_2]

conf.DIR;1          lib.DIR;1

Total of 2 files.

Directory DISK2:[ARNE.groovy.groovy-2_2_2.conf]

groovy-starter.conf;1

Total of 1 file.

Directory DISK2:[ARNE.groovy.groovy-2_2_2.lib]

antlr-2_7_7.jar;1   asm-4_1.jar;1       asm-analysis-4_1.jar;1
asm-commons-4_1.jar;1                   asm-tree-4_1.jar;1 
asm-util-4_1.jar;1
commons-cli-1_1.jar;1                   groovy-2_2_0.jar;1 
groovy-2_2_2.jar;1

Total of 9 files.

Grand total of 4 directories, 15 files.

Obviously Groovy 2.2 does not have the same features
as Groovy 4.0, because the update sequence
2.2 -> 2.3 -> 2.4 -> 2.5 -> 3.0 -> 4.0 did add some
useful stuff, but 2.2 is what is possible on VMS Alpha.

Arne