From: arne@vajhoej.dk
On 8/29/2025 1:57 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2025-08-29, 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.
>>
>
> A decade ago, I got as far as getting a simple C program for VMS Alpha
> to compile and link on Linux. Anything else more complicated than that
> (ie: other languages) failed and I suspect that either bits were missing
> from the public kits or the additional steps required were not obvious.
>
> I discussed this at length in comp.os.vms at the time. Anyone interested
> will have to rely on the notes I posted at the time as I have completely
> forgotten the details of any of this (and have no motivation to get back
> up to speed on them because my hobbies these days are very different and
> because there's no longer a proper hobbyist licence for VMS Alpha).
I did the search:
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/KN9yqM7_8PU/m/T4xwyTz5A3oJ
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/S7-VwQmmOZU/m/LXQ2TrbCBAAJ
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/oSNzXLKeu4o/m/8Tq5dIFaDAAJ
Arne
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