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From: Hunter Goatley <goathunter@goatley.com>
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Subject: Re: Bliss
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:19:05 -0400
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On 7/12/2024 8:27 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/12/2024 7:23 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> So we got Bliss on VMS.
>>
>> And we got Bliss for older DEC OS.
>>
>> Are there any Bliss available for various Unix, Linux, Windows etc.?
>>
>> Oracle supposedly did Bliss for Windows when they worked on Rdb for
>> Windows NT, but I believe that is not available.
> 
> A little search find:
> 
> https://github.com/madisongh/blissc
> 
> (one familiar name)
> 
> Seems to require either autotools or cmake.
> 

I've never been able to get Matt's compiler to build. I also haven't 
tried since I gained more experience working on Linux. I have meant to 
try again, but never have made the time.

I had heard eons ago that DEC had a bunch of BLISS compilers: for RSTS, 
for ULTRIX, for Windows. I don't know if they really did, but they were 
certainly never made available outside of DEC, unfortunately.

Here's another one, which I just found and haven't tried.

https://github.com/JonathanBelanger/bliss

That page references another:

A FreeVMS Portable BLISS for GCC
ftp://freevms.nvg.org/pub/vms/freevms/bliss

The last version there is from 2007. No idea if it works, either.

Hunter