Building GNAT for VMS from sources

Building GNAT for VMS from sources

[Simon Clubley]

The binary distribution of GNAT for VMS is at 3.12p.

I would like to build a later version of GNAT for VMS from the sources.

However, looking in the source kit, I find several VMS specific makefiles and
command procedures, but no build documentation.

Can someone from ACT (or anyone else who has done this) give a top level
overview of what sequence of steps are required in order to build GNAT for
VMS from sources ?

It would save me a lot of time trying to figure out the steps myself with
this.

(BTW, before any non-VMS types wonder why I don't just run configure, then
you need to be aware that configure does not run on VMS).

Thank you,

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP       
VMS advocate: One who makes a Mac advocate look like a beginner at advocacy.

Re: Building GNAT for VMS from sources

[Zane H. Healy]

Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-earth.ufp> wrote:
> The binary distribution of GNAT for VMS is at 3.12p.

> I would like to build a later version of GNAT for VMS from the sources.

> However, looking in the source kit, I find several VMS specific makefiles and
> command procedures, but no build documentation.

You might want to ask about this in comp.os.vms as well.  The main thing I
know is that you'll have to first build 3.13p, then use that to build
3.14p, and use that to build 3.15p.  

I wish you luck!  I'd love to see the current release available for OpenVMS.

		Zane