From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-08-29, Dan Cross  wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   AdaCore was primarily responsible for working on this as part of   
   GNAT. After they dropped VMS as a supported target, this code may   
   have gone stale.   
      
   > What, exactly, are you trying to do?   
   >   
      
   I strongly suspect the OP is trying to either run more modern variants   
   of languages that already exist on VMS or languages that simply do   
   not yet exist on VMS.   
      
   Simon.   
      
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