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Subject: Re: Fun: Object Pascal on VMS
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 20:34:00 -0400
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On 9/3/2024 8:22 PM, bill wrote:
> On 9/3/2024 6:27 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> Has anyone actually tried porting FPC to VMS?  It looks at first glance
>> like a lot of it is written in Pascal, so I assume it would need to be
>> cross-compiled initially.
> 
> Why?  Wasn't the VMS Pascal compiler ported?  I would think it
> would be a lot easier porting something written in Pascal
> compared to something written in C.

If FPC source is ISO Pascal then VMS Pascal may be able to build it
with maybe a few tweaks.

But if the FPC source is Object Pascal then VMS Pascal is of no use.

A quick glance at https://github.com/fpc/FPCSource/screams Object Pascal.

Arne