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Compiling Vim on OpenVMS
The following will build a default OpenVMS Vim distribution, including DECW/Motif support.

OpenVMS x86_64 (VSI X86VMS OPENVMS V9.2-3)
DECC (VSI X86VMS C V7.6-1)
MMS (VSI X86VMS MMS V4.0-5)
Git (VSI X86VMS GIT V2.44-1B)


$ define/nolog VIM disk:[vim]
$ cr/dir/prot ...

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http://www.polarhome.com/vim/ (frequently down)
https://github.com/vim/vim#
https://neilrieck.net/docs/openvms_notes_vim.html

cURL: command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax.

Ensure GNV is installed and that GSED is configured as an alias for SED, e.g.
$ GSED :== SED
Also, ensure that the zlib and zstd header files are copied to SYS$LIBRARY


$ wget --no-check-certificate https://curl.se/download/curl-8.5 ...

Do you know of any mariadb version for x86? Or PostgreSQL?
No, neither exist as yet - you can find discussions on this on the VSI forums - apparently it's due to restrictions in the implementation of the C standard.
I am currently hosting this entire website natively on OVMS except for MariaDB ...

First you'll have to use the "fixes" branch, i.e.

$ git checkout fixes

And, in addition to the updates you've already made, you'll need to edit the options file as follows.

$ diff meansi.opt
************
File DISK$TOOLS:[temp.MicroEmacs.ue500.vms]meansi.opt;4
37 word.obj
******
File DISK ...

Server version: 10.11.6-MariaDB-0+deb12u1 Debian 12

libexpat: XML parser library written in C

$ curl -O https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/download/R_2_1_0/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
$ gzip -d expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf expat-2.1.0.tar
$ curl -O http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/patches/expat-2_1_0_vmspatch.zip
$ rename expat-2_1_0.DIR ...

Porting library: library to make it easy to port software to OpenVMS

GNU make: a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.

$ curl -O https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.82.tar.gz
$ gzip -d make-3^.82^.tar.gz
$ vmstar -xzvf make-3^.82.tar
$ curl -O http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms ...

Mesa3d_glu: Utilities for Mesa3d.

$ cr/dir [.mesa3dglu]
$ set def [.mesa3dglu]
$ git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu.git
$ set def [.glu]
$ git checkout 0bf42e41c8b63fc2488dd8d41f696310b5a5a6a7
$ set def [--]
$ curl -O http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/patches/mesa3dglu_vmspatch ...

Mesa3d: Opensource OpenGL implementation

$ curl -O http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/patches/mesa3d_2014_01_15.zip
$ unzip mesa3d_2014_01_15.zip
$ rename mesa3d_2014_01_15.DIR mesa3d_python.dir
$ curl -O http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/patches/mesa3d_python.zip
$ unzip mesa3d_python.zip ...