From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 8/29/2025 1:39 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   > 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.   
   Not just AdaCore GNAT (Ada).   
      
   ProGIS also tried to make a business of GCC (C and C++) in the   
   same time frame (25 years ago).   
      
   Arne   
      
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