[XForms] OpenVMS version of xforms

[Angus Leeming]

On Tuesday 06 April 2004 2:25 pm, Gayle C Roth wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get an OpenVMS version of xforms.  Does anyone
> > > know the CURRENT web site with the downloads, with the
> > > operating system names next to their links?  I went to the web
> > > site
> > > http://world.std.com/~xforms/ftp/ftp.html, which had an OpenVMS
> > > link.  This however is outdated since the only thing I got was
> > > a README that said that site is no longer the repository, and
> > > the repository now
> > > is:  http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=xforms.  That site
> > > has several downloads but nothing next to the file names (i.e.
> > > no indication of which one is for which operating system).  Can
> > > someone tell me how to get an openVMS (or just plain VMS)
> > > download?
>
> Thanks, Angus.  I actually have the source but was hoping there was
> still a binary out there for OpenVMS because I may have to port my
> GUI which uses xforms in the very near future.  Unfortunately, the
> Makefile generation doesn't apply here because OpenVMS is not UNIX.
>  Otherwise, I'd be happy to try out that tool.
>
> Wish me luck!

Good luck! And remember, we're here to help.

Incidentally, a quick search on google suggests that gnu make works on 
OpenVMS. The gnu autotools are a bunch of perl scripts that will 
create a config.h header file defining lots of system-specific macros 
and a bunch of Makefiles.

Angus

> >Hi, Gayle.
> >
> >xforms has moved to an Open Source licence meaning that there's no
> >need for us to provide binaries for tens of different platforms.
> > Grab the source and compile it.
> >
> >The xforms 1.0 release uses xmkmf and family to generate the
> >Makefiles. It is kludgy and I don't think that anybody here knows
> >much about it.
> >
> >The xforms 1.0.90 pre-release for xforms 1.1 uses the gnu
> > autotools to generate the Makefiles. We'd be very grateful if you
> > could try it out on your box. The source itself is little changed
> > from xforms 1.0 modulo a fair number of bug fixes.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Angus