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diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index 1ae77a0ec..e79b2bace 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -6,12 +6,10 @@ How To Compile -Curl has been compiled and built on numerous different operating systems. The -way to proceed is mainly divided in two different ways: the unix way or the -windows way. +Curl has been compiled and built on numerous different operating systems. -If you're using Windows (95/98/NT/ME/2000 or whatever) or OS/2, you should -continue reading from the Win32 or OS/2 headers further down. All other +If you're using Windows (95/98/NT/ME/2000 or whatever), VMS, RISC OS or OS/2, +you should continue reading from one the paragraphs further down. All other systems should be capable of being installed as described below. UNIX @@ -255,6 +253,78 @@ IBM OS/2 If you're getting huge binaries, probably your makefiles have the -g in CFLAGS. +VMS +=== + (The VMS section is in whole contributed by the friendly Nico Baggus) + + This is the first attempt at porting cURL to VMS. + + Curl seems to work with FTP & HTTP other protocols are not tested. (the + perl http/ftp testing server supplied as testing too cannot work on VMS + because vms has no concept of fork(). [ I tried to give it a whack, but + thats of no use. + + SSL stuff has not been ported. + + Telnet has about the same issues as for Win32. When the changes for Win32 + are clear maybe they'l work for VMS too. The basic problem is that select + ONLY works for sockets. + + Marked instances of fopen/[f]stat that might become a problem, especially + for non stream files. In this regard, the files opened for writing will be + created stream/lf and will thus be safe. Just keep in mind that non-binary + read/wring from/to files will have a records size limit of 32767 bytes + imposed. + + Stat to get the size of the files is again only safe for stream files & + fixed record files without implied CC. + + -- My guess is that only allowing access to stream files is the quickest + way to get around the most issues. Therefore all files need to to be + checked to be sure they will be stream/lf before processing them. This is + the easiest way out, I know. The reason for this is that code that needs to + report the filesize will become a pain in the ass otherwise. + + Exit status.... Well we needed something done here, + + VMS has a structured exist status: + | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0| + |1098|765432109876|5432109876543|210| + +----+------------+-------------+---+ + |Ctrl| Facility | Error code |sev| + +----+------------+-------------+---+ + + With the Ctrl-bits an application can tell if part or the whole message has + allready been printed from the program, DCL doesn't need to print it again. + + Facility - basicaly the program ID. A code assigned to the program + the name can be fetched from external or internal message libraries + Errorcode - the errodes assigned by the application + Sev. - severity: Even = error, off = non error + 0 = Warning + 1 = Success + 2 = Error + 3 = Information + 4 = Fatal + <5-7> reserved. + + This all presents itself with: + %<FACILITY>-<SeV>-<Errorname>, <Error message> + + See also the src/curlmsg.msg file, it has the source for the messages In + src/main.c a section is devoted to message status values, the globalvalues + create symbols with certain values, referenced from a compiled message + file. Have all exit function use a exit status derived from a translation + table with the compiled message codes. + + This was all compiled with: + + Compaq C V6.2-003 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1-1H2 + + So far for porting notes as of: + 13-jul-2001 + N. Baggus + PORTS ===== This is a probably incomplete list of known hardware and operating systems @@ -268,7 +338,6 @@ PORTS - Alpha Linux 2.2.16 - Alpha OpenVMS V7.1-1H2 - Alpha Tru64 v5.0 5.1 - - ARM RISC OS - HP-PA HP-UX 9.X 10.X 11.X - MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5 - Power AIX 4.2, 4.3.1, 4.3.2 @@ -291,6 +360,7 @@ PORTS - m68k AmigaOS 3 - m68k OpenBSD - StrongARM NetBSD 1.4.1 + - StrongARM (and other ARM) RISC OS 3.1, 4.02 OpenSSL ======= |