[Info-vax] Fun: Object Pascal on VMS

[bill]

On 9/3/2024 8:34 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/3/2024 8:22 PM, bill wrote:
>> On 9/3/2024 6:27 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>> Has anyone actually tried porting FPC to VMS?  It looks at first glance
>>> like a lot of it is written in Pascal, so I assume it would need to be
>>> cross-compiled initially.
>>
>> Why?  Wasn't the VMS Pascal compiler ported?  I would think it
>> would be a lot easier porting something written in Pascal
>> compared to something written in C.
> 
> If FPC source is ISO Pascal then VMS Pascal may be able to build it
> with maybe a few tweaks.
> 
> But if the FPC source is Object Pascal then VMS Pascal is of no use.
> 
> A quick glance at https://github.com/fpc/FPCSource/screams Object Pascal.
> 

So, that OO shit comes out to bite people on the ass yet again.  :-)

bill