NOTES.VMS

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   2  NOTES FOR THE OPENVMS PLATFORM
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   4
   5  Requirement details
   6  -------------------
   7
   8  In addition to the requirements and instructions listed in INSTALL,
   9  this are required as well:
  10
  11   * At least ODS-5 disk organization for source and build.
  12     Installation can be done on any existing disk organization.
  13
  14
  15  About ANSI C compiler
  16  ---------------------
  17
  18  An ANSI C compiled is needed among other things.  This means that
  19  VAX C is not and will not be supported.
  20
  21  We have only tested with DEC C (a.k.a HP VMS C / VSI C) and require
  22  version 7.1 or later.  Compiling with a different ANSI C compiler may
  23  require some work.
  24
  25  Please avoid using C RTL feature logical names DECC$* when building
  26  and testing OpenSSL.  Most of all, they can be disruptive when
  27  running the tests, as they affect the Perl interpreter.
  28
  29
  30  About MMS and DCL
  31  -----------------
  32
  33  MMS has certain limitations when it comes to line length, and DCL has
  34  certain limitations when it comes to total command length.  We do
  35  what we can to mitigate, but there is the possibility that it's not
  36  enough.  Should you run into issues, a very simple solution is to set
  37  yourself up a few logical names for the directory trees you're going
  38  to use.
  39
  40
  41  Checking the distribution
  42  -------------------------
  43
  44  There have been reports of places where the distribution didn't quite
  45  get through, for example if you've copied the tree from a NFS-mounted
  46  Unix mount point.
  47
  48  The easiest way to check if everything got through as it should is to
  49  check for one of the following files:
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  51    [.crypto]opensslconf^.h.in
  52
  53  The best way to get a correct distribution is to download the gzipped
  54  tar file from ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/, use GZIP -d to uncompress
  55  it and VMSTAR to unpack the resulting tar file.
  56
  57  Gzip and VMSTAR are available here:
  58
  59    http://antinode.info/dec/index.html#Software
  60
  61  Should you need it, you can find UnZip for VMS here:
  62
  63    http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html