NOTES.VMS

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   2  NOTES FOR THE OPENVMS PLATFORM
   3  ==============================
   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), compiling
  22  with a different ANSI C compiler may require some work.
  23
  24  Please avoid using C RTL feature logical names DECC$* when building
  25  and testing OpenSSL.  Most of all, they can be disruptive when
  26  running the tests, as they affect the Perl interpreter.
  27
  28
  29  About MMS and DCL
  30  -----------------
  31
  32  MMS has certain limitations when it comes to line length, and DCL has
  33  certain limitations when it comes to total command length.  We do
  34  what we can to mitigate, but there is the possibility that it's not
  35  enough.  Should you run into issues, a very simple solution is to set
  36  yourself up a few logical names for the directory trees you're going
  37  to use.
  38
  39
  40  Checking the distribution
  41  -------------------------
  42
  43  There have been reports of places where the distribution didn't quite
  44  get through, for example if you've copied the tree from a NFS-mounted
  45  Unix mount point.
  46
  47  The easiest way to check if everything got through as it should is to
  48  check for one of the following files:
  49
  50    [.crypto]opensslconf^.h.in
  51
  52  The best way to get a correct distribution is to download the gzipped
  53  tar file from ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/, use GZIP -d to uncompress
  54  it and VMSTAR to unpack the resulting tar file.
  55
  56  Gzip and VMSTAR are available here:
  57
  58    http://antinode.info/dec/index.html#Software
  59
  60  Should you need it, you can find UnZip for VMS here:
  61
  62    http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html