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  OpenVMS OpenOffice.org port

/Updated 2006-08-30, by Martin Borgman
<mailto:martin.borgman@oooovms.dyndns.org>/

vms shark large


    News

30 august 2006:
    I made some changes to the perl enabler page using perl under bash
    <http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/gnv/perl/>. It now works on OpenVMS
    8.3 with GNV 2.1-0 and Perl 5.8-6. 
8 jun 2006:
    A new version of dix (5.1) is available. The main new feature of
    this version is a fast record search. Dix can now search files
    bypassing RMS and using SYS$QIOW. This makes the search a lot
    faster, especially for indexed files. See the release notes for this
    version on the dix <dix/> webpage. 
1 february 2006:
    After perl and java Martin also worked out a way to use python under
    bash. We need this features for the OpenOffice port to OpenVMS.

    A description how to use python can be found in the gnv section
    using python under bash <http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/gnv/python/>. 
30 january 2006:
    Martin worked out a way to use perl and java under bash. We need
    this features for the OpenOffice port to OpenVMS.

    A description how to use perl can be found in the gnv section using
    perl under bash <http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/gnv/perl/>.

    A description how to use java can be found in the gnv section using
    java under bash <http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/gnv/java/>. 
22 january 2006:
    A new version of dix (4.3) is available. 

*Recent News... <news/>*


    Porting OpenOffice to OpenVMS


      Project Goals

The main goal of the project is to port a recent version of OpenOffice
to OpenVMS Alpha and ia64. To achieve this goal we decided to use the
features first introduced in the OpenVMS versions for the DII COE
project. This means the new features introduced in the CRTL (improved
"standards" compatibility and UNIX style file paths) and the unix
commands and utilities provided by the GNV kit. As a result, OpenOffice
will only become available on OpenVMS versions supporting these new
features.


      Secondary Goals

We participate in field tests and provide as much feedback as we can on
the new features in the CRTL and the GNV kit.

We will improve, add new features to some GNV tools and add new tools
when needed.

We help others to add ODS-5 and UNIX style file path support to their
ported applications.

We write how-to documents on how to port open source software to OpenVMS.


      Status of the project

Porting OpenOffice is really hard, and not only because of the sheer
amount of source files (100,000+). Even getting OpenOffice compiled on
Solaris 9 took some serious effort! The hardest part is that you see so
little progress on the outside. When you finally see the OpenOffice.org
logo, you're 99.9% done.

Our first problem was getting the sources on an OpenVMS ODS-5 disk with
all the filenames intact. There is, as far as we know, no tool,
supporting ODS-5 filenames, to get source files from a CVS server so we
downloaded a tar.gz file.

GNV gzip did not handle ODS-5 names properly, but that was a minor
problem (a file named xxx^.tar.gz;1 would become xxx^.tar.;1 after
gunzipping). We fixed this and our version of gzip is now part of the
latest GNV kit.

GNV tar could not untar the OpenOffice tar file. We are porting POSIX.2
PAX to OpenVMS. With PAX you can read and write tar and cpio files. We
use PAX to untar the OpenOffice sources. We will submit our version of
PAX for a future release of the GNV kit.

We have a port of m4, a UNIX macro language interpreter, used by many
open source build tools like automake, autoconf and libtool.

We are writing a document on how to port open source software to
OpenVMS. Hopefully more people will participate in the writing of this
document.


        But this was just to get us started.

What part of OpenOffice did we really port:

    * We have a working version of dmake, the primary OpenOffice build
      tool, but we need to do some of this work again because of all the
      changes in OpenOffice 2.0 and OpenVMS 8.2.


      What still needs to be done

Although we only have two people doing some programming work in their
spare time, we have achieved quite a lot, but we have unfortunately very
little to show for it. Partially this is because of the strange
OpenOffice build environment. It is somewhat strange for UNIX people but
completely strange for us OpenVMS people.

And then there are the new CRTL features and the feature switches. This
took a while to understand.

And don't forget that, in the beginning, many of the GNV tools didn't
quite work the way they should.


        We still need:

    * An ODS-5 extended filename aware CVS client with UNIX style file
      path support, And preferably also a CVS server with these features.
    * Tools like automake, autoconf and libtool.
    * All the GNV tools still need to be tested for ODS-5 extended
      filename and UNIX style file path support. Tools like zip and
      bzip2 still need some work.
    * A tcsh shell. Hunter Goatley ported tcsh to OpenVMS using POSIX
      for OpenVMS a very long time ago, so, as far as we know, no ODS-5
      extended filename support.
    * All the standard tools that are missing from the GNV kit and/or
      have an outdated version in the GNV kit.
    * Although the DEC compilers are most probably the best compilers on
      the market, a OpenVMS port of gcc 3.2.2 or better with ODS-5
      extended filename and UNIX style file path support would really
      help our project.
    * More standard compliant functions in the CRTL, we desperately need
      fork and a proper working version of vfork and while we don't have
      those, we need good workarounds.
    * An Alpha? as Tinderbox-system
      http://www.mozilla.org/tinderbox.html
      <http://www.mozilla.org/tinderbox.html>
    * But most of all PEOPLE. Primary
      contact-address:mailto:info@oooovms.dyndns.org


      We need you!

Our group currently consists of:

    * two programmers
    * one system manager
    * one ambassador
    * about three others who sometimes help out

We could do more with some helpful hands in basically any department.

And don't forget, this is what we do in our spare time.


      Links

    * The OpenOffice.org home page is at http://www.openoffice.org/; you
      might want to start using OpenOffice today; but not yet on OpenVMS...
    * On the OpenOffice.org porting page http://porting.openoffice.org/
      <http://porting.openoffice.org/> you'll find a link to our
      projects OpenOffice.org home page http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/
      <http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/> and the names of the project
      leaders. Our web server runs OpenVMS 8.2 and Secure Web Server 1.3-1.
    * The official GNV page is at http://gnv.sourceforge.net/
      <http://gnv.sourceforge.net/>, but you can download an official
      PCSI kit from http://h71000.www7.hp.com/opensource/opensource.html
      <http://h71000.www7.hp.com/opensource/opensource.html>
    * If you want to know more about DII COE, start at this page
      http://h71000.www7.hp.com/solutions/government/coe/kpc_program.html
      <http://h71000.www7.hp.com/solutions/government/coe/kpc_program.html>
    * OpenVMS UNIX Portability web site
      http://h71000.www7.hp.com/portability/index.html
      <http://h71000.www7.hp.com/portability/index.html>
    * Linux and Tru64 UNIX affinity portability tools
      http://h30097.www3.hp.com/affinity/affinity-tools.html
      <http://h30097.www3.hp.com/affinity/affinity-tools.html>


      Contacts

    * Primary contact-address: info@oooovms.dyndns.org
      <mailto:info@oooovms.dyndns.org>
    * Ton van der Zwet, project leader and system manager, web site and
      documentation ton.vanderzwet@oooovms.dyndns.org
      <mailto:ton.vanderzwet@oooovms.dyndns.org>
    * Martin Borgman, second project leader, programmer, web site and
      documentation martin.borgman@oooovms.dyndns.org
      <mailto:martin.borgman@oooovms.dyndns.org>
    * Gerrit Woertman, Dutch OpenVMS ambassador gerrit.woertman@hp.com
      <mailto:gerrit.woertman@hp.com>


    Us at the third OpenOffice.org conference

Us at the third OpenOffice.org conference


    Our build environment (updated 24-februari-2006)

Our current build environment consists of the following:

    * One Alpha DS10L system with 512 MB of memory and a KZPCM-DA Dual
      SCSI card
    * OpenVMS 8.2
    * TCP/IP 5.5-11 ECO 1
    * JAVA 1.5.0-1 from the Java™ technology on hp Alpha systems for the
      Java™ Platform page
      <http://h18012.www1.hp.com/java/download/index.html>
    * GNV 2.0-1
    * GTK V1.2-10
    * OPL V1.0-0A9
    * MYSQL V4.1-14
    * OPENSSL097E V1.2-0
    * CGATEPRO V5.0-1
    * C 7.1-015
    * C++ 7.1-015
    * DECset 12.4 (not a requirement, but some of our programmers love
      LSE. They also love vi, weird!)
    * Perl 5.6.1 from OpenVMS secure web server (based on apache) page
      <http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/apache/csws.html>
    * Compaq Secure Web Server (Apache) V1.3-1
    * Compaq Secure Web Server PERL (mod_perl) V1.1
    * Compaq Secure Web Server PHP (mod_php) V1.2-1
    * An Itanium box running OpenVMS 8.2-1 for the ia64 port.

I don't think that we need the OpenVMS porting tools because the CRTL
makes them obsolete.


    Featured on this site:

*Links on this site*
*Link* 	*Description*
Reference <reference/> 	Reference section (2005-10-19)
GNV <gnv/> 	GNV section (2006-02-01)
TCSH <todo/tcsh/tcsh.html> 	placed on to do list (2003-07-18)
dmake <openoffice/current/dmake.html> 	Update dmake page (2003-07-18)
pax 2.1 <pax/index.html> 	PAX is the POSIX.2 Portable Archive eXchange
utility. With PAX you can read and write tar and cpio formatted archives
(2003-09-21)
issuelist <Reference/issuelist/> 	General OpenVMS porting issuelist
(2005-10-19)
fshelp <fshelp/> 	Freeware utility to view and search OpenVMS help files
(2005-12-28)
dix <dix/> 	Freeware utility to view, search and modify OpenVMS indexed
files (2006-06-08)
regedit <regedit/> 	Freeware utility to edit the OpenVMS registry
(2004-09-15)
mymail <mymail/> 	A program to use vms mail syntax in a communigate-pro
environment (2005-09-08)
auto <auto/> 	A program to AUTOmatically expand DCL commands (2005-12-18)

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