scotth@sgi.com (Scott Henry) (06/09/89)
I have gotten a copy of the VMS GCC binaries, and they seem to work OK (I
can compile, link and run the "hello world" program). I have copied over
the GNUEmacs source directories from a UN*X machine to the VAX, and set up
config.h and paths.h according to the file [...src]VMSBUILD, and changed
the default compiler to be GCC. I have run into several problems:
1) the file s-vms.h contains the line:
globalref char sdata[];
which GCC barfs on, giving the error message:
[...]s-vms.h:216: parse error before `char'
Anybody know the correct GCC-compatible replacement (I guessed that extern
would do, but I haven't been able to test it yet)?
2) There are lots of missing include files. I presume that they come with
the VAX-C compiler, but we no got, which is why I am trying to use GCC.
Anybody have a (PD?) set of VAX/VMS include files (at least those needed
to compile Emacs)? I can figure out a list of needed files on request.
3) I am also getting some "interesting" compiler errors. Specifically, in
[...src]dir.h (from dired.c) it complains about declarations that look
fine to me:
[...src]dir.h:74: field `dir$t_name' has incomplete type
[...src]dir.h:95: field `dir$t_linkname' has incomplete type
4) And in [...src]vmsfns.c I get several "invalid lvalue in unary `&' in
function ..." errors in lines 273, 464, 656, 779, and 838. These don't
look hard to fix, but I would have to ASSUME that what is meant is a
pointer to a location holding the #define'd constant value.
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Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com>
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Mountain View, CA
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