Xvmsutils, Languages, Routines useful for porting UNIX programs to VMS Installation To compile the xvmsutils is pretty straightforward. Unpack the sources and execute make.com. This should take care about all the dependencies on platform, OpenVMS version and C compiler version. These actually impose a pretty complicated set of conditions on the compilation and quite a bit of effort went into working them out. Since this is getting more and more complicated (i.e. by now it happens that functions which are part of an older Compaq C version do vanish in more current ones) I have embarked to rebuild the procedure to use small testprograms to determine if a specfic function is implemented or not. This is currently work in progress, i.e. the procedure uses currently a mixture of both approaches. In case MMS/MMK is installed this will be used to perform the actual compile, otherwise make.com will handle it by itself. Version 2.03 is the first one in quite a while that actually has been tested on OpenVMS VAX. A number of bugs in the build procedure have been squashed for this release and it should build cleanly now on VAX systems again. If you install a new DEC C compiler/OpenVMS version and receive messages about multiply defined symbols using a previously compiled version of the Xvmsutils object library, delete it and rebuild the file. Just reexecuting make.com won't help since this will reuse the existing library file and therefore modules once inserted won't vanish from it. Setup To be able to refer to the include files of the library without too much hassle you might want to define a logical X11VMS, which points to the directory where you've installed the Xvmsutils. Starting with version 2.0 on OpenVMS Alpha also a shareable image version of the Xvmsutils is created, which should be refrenced by the logical name X11VMSSHR. History Actually this library was developed first about 1989 to support a port of the X11R3/R4 applications to VMS. I am taking care of the code since 1995. Mostly this means nowadays removing bits and pieces either in the makefiles or in the code (i.e. using appropriate #ifdefs in this case) since the DEC C compiler contains more and more of the functions in the meantime by itself. If you have suggestions how to improve the library still drop me a note, I shall be happy to discuss the topic with you. Applications using the Xvmsutils Blockade Logic game: (Re-)Move blocks from the board Emiclock Clock with various characters displayed in the face Xmaddressbook You have guessed it, a graphical addressbook Xsnow Have it snow on your Xscreen and spy Santa on his way Xsokoban Logic game: Japanese Warehouse keeper Installation The latest version of the Xvmsutils library should always be accessible via http://zinser.no-ip.info/vms/sw/xvmsutils.htmlx