Free VMS Software ported to VMS x86-64

List:

This is some of the free software that has been ported to VMS x86-64:

• VSI kits (Apache, cURL+libcURL, DFG, LibPQ, Lua, Mosquito, OpenLDAP, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Paho-C, PHP, LibRabbitMQ, Redis, VGit, Zip+Unzip etc.)
• VSI freeware (FIND, GPG, Gzip, Jump, VMSTAR etc.)
• Hunter Goatley's FileServ (jump, flist, MMK, HGFTP, verb, hglogin, hgsd etc.)
• Steve Schweda (dirsort, vmstar, bzip2, wget, diffutils, unrar etc.)
• WASD (WASD+extras)
• Mark Berryman (PHP, GhostScript, GV, Curl)
• Jouk Jansen (Bison, Flex, gawk, sed, GNU Make, gzip, Expat, LibXML2, ImageMagick, JED, zstd etc.)
• VMS ports (SQLite)
• Mosaic web-browser
• MicroEmacs
• MMK

Tool status:

Cross compilers available on Itanium: C, Fortran, Pascal, Cobol, Basic.

Native compilers and interpreters available: C, C++, Fortran, Pascal, Cobol, Basic, PHP, Python, Java.

JVM compilers and interpreters available (standard distribution - not VSI distribution): Jython (JVM Python), Rhino (JVM JavaScript), Groovy, Scala, Kotlin.

Known gotchas:

• C++ default pointer size is 8 not 4
• C++ long is 8 not 4
• C++ does not support C++17 only C++14
• C++ may require you to set protection on sys$common:[vsicxx$lib.include.sys$starlet_c]*.h to W:RE
• C++ code calling C RTL may experience problems due to different data sizes
• Basic in FT version may require you to link with /SEG=CODE:P0 and do a $ INSTALL REPLACE SYS$SHARE:DEC$BASRTL/SHARE=NOADDRESS
• Cross compilers and therefore the Math RTL in 9.2/9.2-1/9.2-2/9.2-3 does not support REAL*16 and COMPLEX*16

Guides:

Installation VMS 9.x on:

• VMWare Player
• VMWare WorkStation
• VirtualBox
• VMWare ESXi
• KVM
• KVM
• QEMU
• ProxMox
• ProxMox
• Amazon EC2
• Real hardware
• Real hardware / Neil Rieck
• Getting X working

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