From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21189 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2015 13:59:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libffi-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libffi-discuss-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 21170 invoked by uid 89); 13 Feb 2015 13:59:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_FROM_URIBL_PCCC,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ig0-f180.google.com Received: from mail-ig0-f180.google.com (HELO mail-ig0-f180.google.com) (209.85.213.180) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 13:59:16 +0000 Received: by mail-ig0-f180.google.com with SMTP id b16so10701800igk.1 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 05:59:14 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.43.201 with SMTP id y9mr3732108igl.6.1423835954785; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 05:59:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.101] (173-19-202-206.client.mchsi.com. [173.19.202.206]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id z9sm3245267igw.21.2015.02.13.05.59.13 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 13 Feb 2015 05:59:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54DE0378.8040609@qsl.net> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 13:59:00 -0000 From: "John E. Malmberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: libffi-discuss@sourceware.org Subject: Trying to port libffi to OpenVMS. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015/txt/msg00035.txt.bz2 Hello, I am one of the current developers of the GNV and VMS-PORTS Sourceforge projects. References below: The build of cPython from the mercurial repository on VMS now effectively requires a port of libffi in order to complete. I was able to apply Philippe Vouters patches for Libffi 3.0.9 to libffi 3.1 and get the code building. I was unable to get the tests to run under GNV though. I am now trying to build master from a git checkout, and have gotten lost with the changes to src/alpha/ffi.c since then, so I am looking for some guidance on how to get libffi from master building. I have been unable to locate the WIKI for libffi. The link at github just gives a 404, not found. On VMS, the compilers do not support the "asm" directive. I have e-mailed Philippe, but so far I have not received a response from him. Regards, -John References: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnv/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/vms-ports/ GNV is the GNU on VMS tool kit and tries to simulate a Linux build environment on VMS. VMS-PORTS is for other programs ported to OpenVMS such as cPython 3.5a. VMS has free hobby licenses for non-commercial hobby use, or free software developers Alliance One licenses for commercial software companies. Free VAX and Alpha emulators are also available.