From: arne@vajhoej.dk

On 9/12/2025 8:14 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2025-09-12, Waldek Hebisch  wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj  wrote:
>>> If you get cross-compilation working prefect would you try
>>> moving compiler to run on VMS?
>>
>> ATM talking about this is premature.  At some moment I will move
>> to different things and that probably will be before any my attempt
>> to natively run compilers.
>
> If I had got that far, natively run compilers wasn't a major interest
> for me either.
>
> I've a lot of hobbyist experience with embedded boards/systems
> (including bringing up my own BSPs, board/MCU initialisation/startup
> code, etc) and I was tending to think of VMS as just another embedded
> device when doing this.
>
> IOW, do the development and building on Linux in a rich environment
> and then just push the final executables, etc, to the VMS system.

For historic reasons then many consider building on VMS to be
"the right way".

And I would like to point out that development environment on VMS
is not that bad.

Obviously way more options available on Linux and Windows, but I
think VMS is ok.

Lots of editors. VT: EDT, EVE, LSE, VIM, JED. X: EVE, LSE, JED, JEdit.
PC (transparent): VS Code (VMS IDE).

Basic tooling. DECset, GNV, VSI provided open source, DECUS tapes.

I believe John Malmberg got builds on VMS running under Jenkins.

Arne

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