Re: VSI OpenVMS Webinar 6th June 2024 online

On 6/16/24 8:02 AM, Chris Townley wrote:

On 16/06/2024 13:43, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 6/16/2024 8:27 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 6/16/2024 6:44 AM, Chris Townley wrote:

On 16/06/2024 11:37, Marc Van Dyck wrote:

John H. Reinhardt explained on 14/06/2024 :

https://youtu.be/JDzZ91MzZfo?si=5u91rrBPAt2YgQEd
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Simon's gonna love the timeline on this.
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Camiel is firmly in charge of the OpenVMS direction.
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   VMSClusters in the cloud in 2026
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No mention of Hobbyists or the Ambassador program.
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Norm Lastovica of SCI (Software Concepts International) talks about migration to x86

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It seems that, from this presentation, VSI purchased Polycenter products
back from Broadcom. They only mentioned Watchdog but I think the 3 other
products are in the deal too. What they want to do with that is still
totally unknown. Port of Watchdog to X86 most unlikely as it is all
written in ADA...

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What is the state of Gnat on VMS?

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ACT dropped VMS support in 2015.
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For what is available then to my understanding:
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Alpha : very old 3.12.8 (based on GCC 2.8.1)

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That should be available from many places.
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But if you can't find it then I have a copy.
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Itanium : see https://github.com/AdaLabs/gnat-vms
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x86-86 : nothing

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Arne
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Thanks. I had DEC Ada on VMS 7.3 on AXP
 I just wondered how difficult it would be to port Gnat to VMS. The Ada community seem to have lots of offerings - why not VMS X86?
 

gnat-llvm may be the best chance of getting Ada on OpenVMS x86:
https://github.com/AdaCore/gnat-llvm
But there are a lot of gotchas.  It requires a prior installation of
GNAT, which likely means a cross-compile environment, and LLVM 16+,
whereas I think current VMS x86 compilers are based on something much
older currently. All of that could change eventually.