Define foreign commands at the DCL prompt:
$bzip2=="$<bzip2 path>bzip2.exe" $tar=="$<tar path>tar.exe"To use GNV, download the binaries for make, bash, and all the utilities from http://gnv.sourceforge.net/downloads/gnv.tar-bz2. Create a directory, we will call it GNV_INSTALL and unpack the binaries.
$create/dir [.GNV_INSTALL] $set def [.GNV_INSTALL] $bzip2 -d gnv.tar-bz2 $tar -xvf gnv.tar
$@[.gnv]setup.com $bash bash$ ls /gnu/bin ar.exe chmod.exe gzip.exe rm.exe tail.exe as.exe cp.exe install.exe rmdir.exe tar.exe basename.exe diff.exe ls.exe sed.exe touch.exe bash.exe egrep.exe make.exe set_exe.com tr.exe bzip2.exe expr.exe mkdir.exe sh.exe uname.exe cat.exe gawk.exe mv.exe sleep.exe wc.exe cc.exe grep.exe objdump.exe stat.exe bash$ ls /gnu/lib decc$shr.exe bash$ echo "Welcome to the wonderful world of GNU on VMS" Welcome to the wonderful world of GNU on VMS
GNV is now installed and ready to go. The rest of this page deals
with advanced configuration and trouble shooting. You can skip it if you
are not interested.
It can also be used to make GNV use an alternate CRTL. This is done by copying that CRTL into gnu:[lib] as decc$shr_<version>.exe where <version> is the OS version without the period. Then do:
$@[.gnv]setup "BETACRTL"