Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 15:07:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Fun: Object Pascal on VMS Newsgroups: comp.os.vms References: Content-Language: en-US From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 28 Message-ID: <66d8aff3$0$707$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source NNTP-Posting-Host: b797ed57.news.sunsite.dk X-Trace: 1725476851 news.sunsite.dk 707 arne@vajhoej.dk/68.14.27.188:52744 X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Bytes: 2016 On 9/3/2024 8:35 PM, bill wrote: > On 9/3/2024 8:34 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> 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. > > So, that OO shit comes out to bite people on the ass yet again.  :-) The other side of the coin says "the lack up of OO support comes out to bite people on the ass yet again". :-) Arne