Open Source Material

Quadratrix is currently porting Open Source material to the OpenVMS platform.
Plans are to support all three architectures VAX, Alpha and Integrity.
At the present, engineers at Quadratrix have successfully ported a number of applications and libraries.
All libraries and applications mentioned hereafter have been compiled and linked on OpenVMS VAX V7.2, OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-1, and OpenVMS I64 V8.2, unless stated otherwise.
For every application or library are listed:

• the name,
• a brief description,
• a reference to the original 'tarball',
• the dependencies (if any),
• and a link to a ZIP file containing a BACKUP saveset with the build procedure (QPORT.COM) and, as the case may be, files modified vis-à-vis the original 'tarball'.

To build an application or library, the original tarball has to be downloaded and unpacked (using Gnu Zip, VMSTAR, Unzip). Thereafter, the patches provided should be applied. For applications or libraries with dependencies, the QPORT.COM file may need modifications as to tell it where to find these dependencies.
Should BACKUP complain about any of the savesets downloadable from this page, execute this command procedure to fix it.

An example of the build of the TIFF library, using the original tarball and the patches, can be found here.
An example of the build of the Mesa3D library, using the original tarballs and the patches, can be found here.

Since the Open Source community can be very active at times, some of the links provided can either be dead, or point to a newer version of the application/library. In the latter case, the build procedure and patches can serve as an example on how to port the newer version.