[New-bugs-announce] [issue21809] Building Python3 on VMS - External repository

[John Malmberg]

New submission from John Malmberg:

With issue 16136 VMS support was removed for Python V3

A test build of the in-development branch using the UNIX instruction and the current GNV product with a few minor tweaks produced a Python.exe interpreter that is somewhat functional.

Most of the issues that showed up in the build process were either bugs in the VMS C library, or that Python would prefer some additional libraries would be present.  These issues are common to porting other software to VMS, and not something that the Python project should need to concern it self with.

I have setup a repository on the Sourceforge VMS-PORTS project, and a
VMS specific discussion thread for doing the port.

https://sourceforge.net/p/vms-ports/discussion/portingprojects/thread/333ab40a/

This is not intended as a fork of the Python project, rather it is a project to provide the build and runtime environment that Python 3 will need on VMS.

Description on how to use this repository on VMS:

https://sourceforge.net/p/vms-ports/cpython/ci/default/tree/readme

The plan is to keep the current status in this file.

https://sourceforge.net/p/vms-ports/cpython/ci/default/tree/vms_source/cpython/vms/aaa_readme.txt

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components: Build
hgrepos: 257
messages: 220970
nosy: John.Malmberg
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Building Python3 on VMS - External repository
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.5

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