[FreeVMS] Problems running FreeVMS

[Zoltan Arpadffy]

Hi Roar,

thank you for the information and the links.
I was able to come to the DCL prompt for the very first time on FreeVMS.
This is a great success.
...but a hedonistic lifestyle learned me to be greedy.

I wonder is there any C compiler that would work within the FreeVMS?
Is it possible to build software for FreeVMS?
What about the network support?

Please understand - I am not demanding. I am just a VMS freak who would
like to contribute.

Thank you.
Regards,
Z

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Roar Thronæs <roart at nvg.ntnu.no> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 12:08:25PM +0100, Zoltan Arpadffy wrote:
> > I tried to use FreeVMS earlier but it failed with the pager.sys.
> > I see that this bug is fixed in 2013 and I gave a new try.
> >
> > Downloaded the git repository. Configured the kernel and built all
> without
> > any problem.
> >
> > The make image failed because it expected files from a different
> > directories.
> >
> > I wonder what I am doing wrong?
> >
> > I am very curios to see FreeVMS in action. If anybody has a working image
> > to share it would be also highly appreciated.
>
> I am sorry, but the freevms.net page is referring to another type of
> FreeVMS development that never had an operational system and is no longer
> in development, as far as I know.
>
> But there is a working FreeVMS with source at
> https://github.com/rroart/freevms.
>
> The current development is for getting Debian 8 support, in the guido
> branch.
> (Many thanks to Guido for continuing the work.)
>
> I am pasting from the newest working release:
>
> There is a new release 0.3.17.
>
> Disk images are available from:
>
> http://www.pvv.org/~roart/a.img.gz (Boot floppy)
> http://www.pvv.org/~roart/c.img.gz (Disk image, 64-bit)
> http://www.pvv.org/~roart/c.img.32.gz (Disk image, 32-bit)
>
> Typically run with
> qemu-system-x86_64 -fda a.img -hda c.img -boot a -monitor stdio -net none
>
> For more about usage, see
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rroart/freevms/master/USE
>
> and which user features are tested in
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rroart/freevms/master/TESTING
>
> News for 0.3.17:
> Support for ODS-2 boot partition and use has been reenabled.
> Support for CMUIP (TCP/IP) has been reenabled.
> Critical/major bugfixes.
> Cleanup of dead/unused source code.
>
> See https://github.com/rroart/freevms for current source.
>
> More info on http://www.pvv.org/~roart/freevms.html
>
> --
> -Roar
>
> (The first attempt at mailing did not get through, so am retrying.)
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