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In article <1993Jan25.164110.107@roads.sa.gov.au>,\
 lawes@roads.sa.gov.au writes...
> A mate of mine told me about a public domain C compiler to run on
> VMS called GCC. Has anyone heard of it or know where I can get it?

     GCC is the GNU C Compiler, from the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
It is not public domain; there is a license (actually copyright) defining
distribution restrictions.  At the simplest level, it is available in
source format at no cost.  If you have access to anon. FTP, you should
be able to find gcc-vms at most of the GNU archive sites.  (The primary
one is prep.ai.mit.edu, but there are many mirror sites all over the world.)
There are two versions available; 1.42 is the current release of version 1,
and gcc-vms is packaged in Unix format (compressed tar "saveset").  2.3.3
is the current release of version 2, and can be built from sources using
1.42 (the sources are also in compressed tar format), or the VMS binaries
may be back available somewhere.  Those were set up to be installed using
VMSINSTAL.COM, but recently got removed to free up disk space.  I'm not
sure of the current status.

     You might try grabbing gcc-vms-1.42.tar.Z from the gnu subdirectory
at archie.au, the AARNet archives.

		Pat Rankin, rankin@eql.caltech.edu

lawes@roads.sa.gov.au writes:

>A mate of mine told me about a public domain C compiler to run on
>VMS called GCC. Has anyone heard of it or know where I can get it?
>Any information about other compilers would also be welcomed.
>Thanks

version 1.42 can be found via ftp on prep.ai.mit.edu.  supposedly the
2.2 version is availible from a site in florida (there's a pointer to
it in the directory on prep.ai.mit.edu), but when i checked the
florida site last week, there was only a file saying tht the 2.2
compiler had been temporarily removed.

i'm using it and it works pretty well, although it has a couple of
minor annoyances, such as not passing the .C file into the $OPEN as a
related file spec for the .obj and .lis files. this means you get
funny names like ".;1" if you specify something like "/obj=dev:[obj]"
on the command line without the file name itself.  also, "toupper()"
and "tolower()" in "ctyp.h" don't do what one expect, they merely
add/subtract 32 from the argument rather than testing the input arg
for the proper range.

more info can be gotten from newsgroup gnu.gcc.help or
help-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu.
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