"Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Running things written in Perl on VMS is exactly what we're about
> here.  Welcome.

Thanks

>>On my side, I'll try it Monday on a VMS machine (wish me luck: I've
>>haven't used VMS for 18 years). I'll keep you posted on problems I may
>>have.
>
> While there have been about a million improvements since then, simple
> navigation should still be the same.  There are links to the FAQ and
> the complete documentation from <http://www.hp.com/go/openvms>.  If
> you are just looking for a basic unixy shell and a few utilities on
> VMS, see <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnv/>; that could help you
> find your way around, but could also be a suitable alternative to
> Psh, depending on what you need.

I'll look at gnv. Thanks

BTW, I will also need to provide access to a C library from perl.

I currently known 3 ways of doing that:
- XS (with core perl)
- Swig [1]
- Inline::C [2]

XS should work out of the box. 

Inline::C should also work pretty well since it generates XS code.

SWIG is a interface generator written in C++ (mostly g++, AFAIR,
compiling with HPUX acc was not possible). The first problem is to
compile it on VMS. 

Has anyone tried any of these alternatives ?

Thanks

[1] http://www.swig.org/
[2] http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Inline-0.44/

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