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   Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   > On 8/29/2025 1:32 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:   
   >> Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   >>> On 8/29/2025 10:14 AM, 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> I suspect very few try to build VMS executables on Linux.   
   >>>   
   >>> GNV got both ar and ld, but that does not help you.   
   >>   
   >> Where are the sources?  Working sources certainly would help.   
   >   
   > There are the SourceForge version of GNV and there is the   
   > VSI version of GNV.   
   >   
   > The SF version is here:   
   >   
   > https://sourceforge.net/p/gnv/ld_tools/ci/default/tree/reference/ld_tools/   
      
   Thanks.  AFAICS main work is done by VMS binaries, so it does not   
   help in my immediate problem, but it contains interesting information.   
      
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