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From: Andreas ZEURCHER <ZUERCHER_Andreas@outlook.com>
Subject: Re: Ada on OpenVMS, where to have a new beginning
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 11:56:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
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On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 12:14:20 PM UTC-5, gérard Calliet wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I participated in a GNAT Ada build for Itanium OpenVMS 
> (https://github.com/AdaLabs/gnat-vms) a few years ago. It is based on a 
> GCC 4.7.3 . 
> 
> I'm coming back to this work to maintain it and make it evolve, in a 
> general approach of making Ada available in OpenVMS environments (VAX, 
> Alpha, Itanium, and soon x86). (http://www.vmsadaall.org/index.php/en/) 
> 
> For VAX and Alpha we have at least DEC Ada and Alsys Ada. On Itanium I 
> have to maintain GNAT Ada on GCC. For x86 I have to base on the Gnat Ada 
> front end for LLVM, since VSI ports VMS to x86 
> (https://vmssoftware.com/updates/state-of-the-port/) basing the 
> compilers on LLVM. 
> 
> I know that Adacore dropped commercial support for Gnat Ada on OpenVMS 
> in 2015. It's not the commercial reasons that interest me. 
> 
> In approaching this project again I would like to know as much as 
> possible about how far Adacore's people or helpers have come in their 
> developments for OpenVMS, what problems they have dealt with in the GCC 
> upgrades they have resolved, only considered, and those they have seen 
> as too difficult and blocking. The question arises as well for the 
> upgrades (with for example around this time the transition of the GCC 
> build to C++) as for the evolution of the debug management. 
> 
> If the answers raise confidentiality issues, I don't want to put anyone 
> in trouble, but I'm looking for indications on who to negotiate with. 
> 
> It's not impossible that Adacore's people were among the last to develop 
> GCC for OpenVMS Itanium. They may also be able to inform me about the 
> build of the C and C++ part for GCC OpenVMS. I think indeed to associate 
> to my efforts for Ada the exploration of the availability of a C++ GCC 
> for Itanium OpenVMS. 
> 
> This resumption of project is quite at its beginning. My goal is to open 
> as much as possible the work and its results to a collaborative work, in 
> Open Source standards. One of my first tasks will be to update the 
> current repository to allow opened development. 
> 
> Gérard Calliet

For those interested, a hobbyist license of OpenVMS is available from VMS Software, Inc., which is the new owners of VMS instead of HPE.  There is also a free Alpha emulator for Windows 10 as well.

https://training.vmssoftware.com/hobbyist

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2020-08-17 17:14 Ada on OpenVMS, where to have a new beginning gérard Calliet
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