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Compiling GAWK on VMS:
There's a DCL command procedure that will issue all the necessary
CC and LINK commands, and there's also a Makefile for use with the MMS
utility. From the source directory, use either
|$ @[.VMS]VMSBUILD.COM
or
|$ MMS/DECRIPTION=[.VMS]DECSRIP.MMS GAWK
VAX C V3.x -- use either vmsbuild.com or descrip.mms as is. These use
CC/OPTIMIZE=NOLINE, which is essential for version 3.0.
VAX C V2.x -- (version 2.3 or 2.4; older ones won't work); edit either
vmsbuild.com or descrip.mms according to the comments in them.
For vmsbuild.com, this just entails removing two '!' delimiters.
Also edit config.h (which is a copy of file [.config]vms-conf.h)
and comment out or delete the two lines ``#define __STDC__ 0''
and ``#define VAXC_BUILTINS'' near the end.
GNU C -- edit vmsbuild.com or descrip.mms; the changes are different
from those for VAX C V2.x, but equally straightforward. No
changes to config.h should be needed.
Tested under VMS V5.3 and V5.4-2 using VAX C V3.2, V3.1, and V2.3
and also GNU C V1.39. Should work without modifications for VMS V4.6
and up.
Installing GAWK on VMS:
All that's needed is a 'foreign' command, which is a DCL symbol
whose value begins with a dollar sign.
|$ GAWK :== $device:[directory]GAWK
(Substitute the actual location of gawk.exe for 'device:[directory]'.)
That symbol should be placed in the user's login.com or in the system-
wide sylogin.com procedure so that it will be defined every time the
user logs on.
Optionally, the help entry can be loaded into a VMS help library.
|$ LIBRARY/HELP SYS$HELP:HELPLIB [.VMS]GAWK.HLP
(You may want to substitute a site-specific help library rather than
the standard VMS library 'HELPLIB'.) After loading the help text,
|$ HELP GAWK
will provide information about both the gawk implementation and the
awk programming language.
The logical name AWK_LIBRARY can designate a default location
for awk program files. For the '-f' option, if the specified filename
has no device or directory path information in it, Gawk will look in
the current directory first, then in the directory specified by the
translation of AWK_LIBRARY if it the file wasn't found. If the file
still isn't found, then ".awk" will be appended and the file access
will be re-tried. If AWK_LIBRARY is not defined, that portion of the
file search will fail benignly.
Running GAWK on VMS:
Command line parsing and quoting conventions are significantly
different on VMS, so examples in _The_GAWK_Manual_ or the awk book
often need minor changes. They *are* minor though, and all the awk
programs should run correctly.
Here are a couple of trivial tests:
|$ gawk -- "BEGIN {print ""Hello, World!""}"
|$ gawk -"W" version !could also be -"W version" or "-W version"
Note that upper- and mixed-case text must be quoted.
The VMS port of Gawk includes a DCL-style interface in addition
to the original shell-style interface. See the help entry for details.
One side-effect of dual command line parsing is that if there's only a
single parameter (as in the quoted string program above), the command
becomes ambiguous. To work-around this, the normally optional "--"
flag is required to force shell rather than DCL parsing. If any other
dash-type options (or multiple parameters such as data files to be
processed) are present, there is no ambiguity and "--" can be omitted.
The logical name AWKPATH can be used to override the default
search path of "SYS$DISK:[],AWK_LIBRARY:" when looking for awk program
files specified by the '-f' option. The format of AWKPATH is a comma-
separated list of directory specifications. When defining it, the
value should be quoted so that it retains a single translation, not a
multi-translation RMS searchlist.