[FreeVMS] Problems running FreeVMS

[Zoltan Arpadffy]

Hi Guido and Roar,

>> Is it possible to build software for FreeVMS?
>Yes, it is buildable from Debian.

You mean that I would be able to compile on a Debian an executable that
would run in the FreeVMS environment?
...an ftp server or apache... or even a gcc?

This sounds very dummy to ask, but are the QIOs implemented in FreeVMS...if
yes are they similar to OpenVMS?

Thank you.
Regards,
Z

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Guido <guidoj2269 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Zoltan,
>
> Thanks for your interest in FreeVMS!
>
> As Roar mentioned I try to continue the FreeVMS 0.3.x branch. It is based
> on a rather old, no longer maintained Linux 2.4 kernel and a lot of VMS
> related code and documentation coming from various sources on the internet.
> Most of my work so far has been to improve maintainability of the code
> base: recent Debian build host, less compiler warnings, more consistent
> type definitions and coding style, removal of unused code, a simple
> automated test framework, etc. I use Bugzilla from freevms.net in an
> effort to maintain a list of tasks that I try to work on. It may not be
> complete, but can be found here: https://www.systella.fr/bugzilla3/
>
> I hope you are still willing to contribute. All help is welcome!
>
> Regards,
> Guido
>
>
>
> On 12/06/2015 10:04 PM, Zoltan Arpadffy wrote:
>
> 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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