From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article <108sckg$19hcn$1@paganini.bofh.team>,   
   Waldek Hebisch  wrote:   
   >I wonder if anybody is using GNU binutils targeting VMS.  I am   
   >trying to set up toolchain for cross-compilation (from Linux) to   
   >Alpha VMS.  Trying reasonably recent (2.43 and 2.39) binutils I   
   >get errors suggesting serious brokennes, for example when I use   
   >'ar' to create a library and later extract a member I get changed   
   >file and 'objdump' says that extracted file is malformed.   
   >   
   >I am now trying binutils 2.21 and apparently they do not have the   
   >problem above.  But I see some weirdness and apparently '-shared'   
   >option (to create shared image) is not supported.   
      
   There is a BFD backend for VMS on Alpha in the main binutils   
   branch in git, but it is not clear to me how well-tested or   
   generally maintained it is, nor how compatibile with the   
   standard VMS utilities it ever was; I suspect it existed   
   primarily to port GNU software to VMS.   
      
   What, exactly, are you trying to do?   
      
   	- Dan C.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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