ld for VMS?

[Jay K]

Darn ok. Maybe your changes will be contributed upstream? I guess not.
I'll try to cross build it then. I'm seeing new errors, building unwind stuff in libgcc.
I'll try some different configurations, could be gcc configure saw the GNU as/ld and
decided to provide more functionality.
Yes I can see binutils trunk builds VMS ld, thanks. I had only tried the latest release.
Maybe I should go past 4.5 for gcc too?

I also had to hack the headers a bit, like ln -s . vms and
#ifdef __GNUC__
#ifndef __int64
#define __int64 long long
#endif

Thanks,
 - Jay

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> Subject: Re: ld for VMS?
> From: gingold@adacore.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:35:15 +0200
> CC: binutils@sourceware.org
> To: jay.krell@cornell.edu
>
>
> On Apr 22, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Jay K wrote:
>
>>
>> Awesome!
>> "Partly" as in?
>
> So, partially. This is still work in progress. But I am able to link and run large programs (such as gcc).
>
>> I can do without shared objects, for one thing, at least for now.
>> I can try trunk.
>
> Use of shared objects work. But ld can't currently generate shared images.
>
>> gcc 4.5 seems to largely work for Alpha/vms "out of the box".
>> At least to output assembly, I think for GNU as. (which I had already built/installed, so configure found it).
>
> Right.
>
>> My larger goal is to cross build: gcc, bash, sed, awk, make, etc. enough so that I can build gcc natively, at least cc1.
>
> Well, you'd better to forget that. If you want a native gcc, you'd better to build it via a cross compiler.
>
> We did native builds of gcc, but it requires a lot of adjustments in the scripts. Tedious work.
>
> Tristan.
>