Craig A. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vorl�nder, Martin wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just curious. Are there any plans to port Perl to run on > >> OpenVMS on the new > >> Intel IPF processor? Perhaps it's just a matter of getting > >> the compiler and > >> linker and building it with the right flags. (eg. endianness)? > > > >I've been to a three-day "Integrity Developer Forum" where two > >guys tried (on iVMS V8.0), but due to the nature of the build > >process, it'll be very complicated while only cross-compilers > >are available (and the two guys finally gave up). > > Because the Perl build makes such extensive use of miniperl, you'd > have to build a native Alpha miniperl and then switch your compiler > flags in mid-stream to go back and build the I64 object files.
That's what the guys really tried to accomplish - but time was too short. > >That said, I did successfully build and run ZIP, UNZIP, GZIP, > >VMSTAR, and MicroEMACS. I don't expect too much hassle once > >iVMS V8.1 with a native C compiler is out. > > I don't either. We'll have to tweak configure.com to properly > recognize the architecture, but that's possibly it. That's what I did for the aforementioned projects. Ahh, I forgot: C-Kermit was also on the list. All of those withstood a few quick tests on OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 for Integrity Servers (whoa - what a name...) > Of course with > 75,000 tests in the test suite, it wouldn't be too surprising if we > shake out some CRTL bugs. Yup. However, it's effectively the DEC C compiler with the Intel backend to generate Itanium code (in the first iteration. Later, we'll see how good Intel's own C/C++ compiler is ;-) cu, Martin
