Hi, thanks for all the help!
maybe i need little bit time and (great) patience. As soon as possible i'll send first results. greets/simon 2012/1/11 Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]>: > You are almost certainly going to run into GC-related problems. Take a > look at src/gc/system.c for an example of some of our most > system-specific code in that area. I'm not super familiar with Itanium > architecture, I'm not sure if our existing code covers that case (or > covers it adequately). You're definitely going to need to look at code > in src/platform/*, which is controlled by configure options. > > I think Parrot used to support VMS in the past, so you might get lucky > and find some of the old code. Thanks for the work on this, VMS is not > a platform that most of our core developers use or are familiar with. > > --Andrew Whitworth > > > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Firstly, thanks for trying to port Parrot to VMS! You are a brave soul :) >> >> It would be very valuable for us to see the output of >> >> perl -V >> uname -a # or the equivalent on VMS >> gcc -v # or equivalent for other compilers >> >> Also, please let us know the exact version of Parrot that you are >> using (or the SHA1 of the commit if you are using git). >> >> I recommend first trying to build an absolutely barebone Parrot: >> >> perl Configure.pl --without-gettext --without-gmp --without-libffi \ >> --without-extra-nci-thunks \ >> --without-opengl --without-readline \ >> --without-pcre --without-zlib \ >> --without-threads --without-icu >> >> that way, things like ICU and friends won't give you problems. >> >> Please also send the full output of the Configure step and all errors >> that you get so we can help you debug stuff. >> >> Good luck! >> >> Duke >> >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Simon Werling <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> got some days of holiday and want to begin little bit porting of >>> parrot on VMS. Just to see were it stops ;) >>> >>> I think i need to generate some VMS specific perl code and maybe some >>> special makefiles and DCL scripts. >>> >>> Can you give me some informations where to locate those files and >>> routines. Could search by myself, but think you can give me some >>> advices... >>> >>> Got perl 5.8 on an HP integrity server (Itanium Montvale/Tukwila), >>> last stable parrot release and tried to configure: >>> >>> - Configure needs adjustments to get test compiles run (mms files, >>> compile/link flags,...) >>> - adjustments because of path convertion from unix and vms style (or >>> other appropriate work arounds because of file system differences) >>> - some ICU version need to be organized or ported >>> >>> Think there'll be much more, but it's the first hour of work =) >>> >>> regards and thanks, simon >>> _______________________________________________ >>> http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan "Duke" Leto <[email protected]> >> Leto Labs LLC >> 209.691.DUKE // http://labs.leto.net >> NOTE: Personal email is only checked twice a day at 10am/2pm PST, >> please call/text for time-sensitive matters. >> _______________________________________________ >> http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
