Re: CONS on OpenVMS

[Rajesh Vaidheeswarran]

I'm not sure anyone has used it outside of Unix/NT as far as I know.

That said.. we can do (and in fact, do support) separate compile and
link stages.. 

You can pretty much override any cons default (for CC AR LINK, etc..)
with stuff that suits your environment.

If you tell us what the usable set of defaults is for VMS, we'd be glad
to incorporate it. (check cons.pl for @param::defaults - from 2.3.0 onwards
it would be @param::unix and @param::msvc. We could certainly have a 
@param::vms)

However, I don't understand the issue with the $ENV. If you can set
the ENV hash from inside  a vanilla perl script, then you should be able to
do it through cons scripts too. If you can't do it through regular perl,
I'd be interested in finding out how perl scripts work on that platform
in the first place..

One more thing to consider.. we use a few packages like File::Spec and
MD5 (or Digest::MD5)..  Make sure they are available for your platform..

rv

In a previous message, "Don's Email" writes:

> Ever since reading the Spring 1998 Perl Journal article about CONS by =
> Bob Sidebotham, I've had it in the back of my mind to test the package =
> in my OpenVMS environment.  OpenVMS has a make equivalent called MMS, =
> however in most cases you can't simply download a Unix make file and use =
> MMS.  Therefore, I'm not particularly attached to make in the first =
> place.
> 
> OpenVMS compiling and linking works differently than its Unix counter =
> parts.  Several key issues cause me to wonder if CONS will work in my =
> environment.
> 
> 1) The compiler and linker are called separately in OpenVMS.
>     Unix: =20
> gcc -c hello.c -o hello.o
>     OpenVMS:
> cc hello.c
> link hello.obj
> 
> 2) The object and executable files have different extensions
> hello.obj and hello.exe
> 
> 3) Library commands are different
> Unix:
> ar r libworld.a world.o
> OpenVMS:
> library/replace/object libworld.olb world.obj
> 
> 4) Perl is called using the "Perl" command
> Unix:
> cons.pl hello
> OpenVMS:
> perl cons.pl hello
> 
> In addition, I've receive an error assigning to the $ENV variable on =
> this platform and the file naming conventions differ.  The $ in  DCL =
> files can cause problems.
> 
> Basically, I'm wonder if anyone has successfully used the CONS package =
> on OpenVMS.  Or if anyone has an opinion on how surmountable these =
> issues will be in the OpenVMS environment.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Donald G Plugge