I played with the MQSeries extension a few years back on VMS,
albeit without an MQ Series installation. IIRC the Makefile.PL went
above and beyond MakeMaker so as to verify that cc could build
things in C against a library that might be in a non-standard location.
Since the MQSeries extension was eventually ported to Windows
it probably has most of it's unportable file path quirks worked out,
but there could be a few lingering VMS specific problems.
It should not be much more than the usual correction to use File::Spec
and checking for appropriate exit statuses.
Peter Prymmer
"Craig A. Berry"
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03/13/2003 10:21 Subject: Re: Perl and MQSeries
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At 12:50 PM -0500 3/12/03, Kevin Wieting wrote:
>Has anyone ported the MQ modules to VMS Perl? If so, can I have them or
get some clues how to modify the one on the cpan.org site? I'm attempting
to read/write off a socket and put/get to a MQSeries queue.
Kevin,
I don't have any experience with MQSeries, but I wouldn't start with
the assumption that the Perl extensions need porting; there is quite
a bit of abstraction in the Perl extension building process that
attempts to insulate you from OS differences. I say "attempts"
because there are quite a few wrinkles that can come up, but the time
to worry about that is when they do, not before trying.
Have a go at building the extensions using the instructions you can get via
$ perldoc perlvms
or at
<http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/vms/perlvms.html#Perl-Extensions>
See how far you get and come back here with any problems you encounter.
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