From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-09-09, Waldek Hebisch  wrote:   
   > Simon Clubley  wrote:   
   >> On 2025-09-09, Craig A. Berry  wrote:   
   >>> Assuming you've copied the VMS headers over to Linux where you are   
   >>> building the compiler, the switch would just be -D_USE_STD_STAT.   
   >>   
   >> Copying the headers is what I did (with patches afterwards IIRC).   
   >> Waldek OTOH said that he was creating his own headers. I don't know   
   >> if that is still the case.   
   >   
   > I am using my own headers and my own (fake) libraries.  Because   
   > may fakes are static libraries the resulting binary has no   
   > chance of working.  I need to work out how to generate fake   
   > shared images, then binaries linked to fake libraries when   
   > transfed to VMS will use real libraries from the system and should   
   > work.   
   >   
      
   I can see how you might be able to get this working with sharable   
   images, but I am not seeing how you might get this working with   
   .olb object module libraries, given that the contents are linked into   
   the executable during linking and are not referenced at runtime.   
      
   Unless there's something I am not seeing, that would mean the actual   
   link would have to be done on VMS, and that you couldn't use binutils   
   on Linux to create the actual VMS Alpha executable image.   
      
   >> BTW, according to the messages I posted at the time, Waldek's C++   
   >> build failure is identical to the one I experienced so clearly   
   >> nothing has changed in this area since then.   
   >   
   > I have now fix or workaround for this issue, so build goes further.   
   > But I get different assembler error at later stage.   
   >   
      
   Nice to see progress on C++. That means you have got further than   
   I did with C++.   
      
   Simon.   
      
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