> >> Sweet, that would hel pme out alot with my port of xmame to >OpenVMS :) > >?! Whenever I used to try and poprt software to VMS I used to give up >and cry if I saw an autoconf as it invariably didnt recopgnise it or >work at all >(this was back in 8u though, so things may have improved). > >All my eexperinces of autoconf have been bad so far sadly - it only >works right on >ssystems the designer though of at the time as far as I >can make out. certainly all >the stuff I;ve seen recently falls over >in an ugly heap when presented with a BSD 4.3 system... >
I usually use the autoconfigure script as a basis for my own DCL script and work from there. My first OpenVMS porting project was SSLeay/OpenSSL to OpenVMS and that took me a two years to figure all the pitfalls out and my build scripts are still in use in the OpenSSL project. CircleMUD, POVRay, MegaPOVRAY were the next things to port and CircleMUD gave me a few problems but I got to learn socket stuff in the process. My latest success with the SIMH simulator package got me thinking again about XMAME & XMESS (that and I own 13 video games). As long as the code is ANSI C compliant (hear that developers, PLEASE keep the code ANSI C and don't go all C++ like the POVRay team did), it can build with little or no problems on an OpenVMS platform (also providing there isn't anything really OS dependent). It's figuring out the Unix build and making a build script that's the pain in the butt. One thing that does help in porting from Unix to OpenVMS (that I really don't use often) is the OpenVMS Porting Library which is free from DEC/COMPAQ/HP. I think I've only used it for FreeCiv and my port of CVS. I'm HOPING to have some parts of XMAME/XMESS for OpenVMS ready for release here soon, just got done last night at 3:00am with a tricky part of the DCL build script and I'll be having some questions soon. When I do have it ready for release, I would like to submit it to the main XMAME/XMESS development tree for future releases and I'll post here and as well as my WWW site (http://www.ourservers.net/openvms_ports) when I have something. _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
