[Quickfix-developers] VMS port of QF

[John G. <joh...@wa...>]

Hi there,

I did not find anything relevent in the archives, so I am askng on the 
list : has anyone tried to port / compile QuickFix to VMS operating system 
?
The company I am working at runs an in-house fix client that is very badly 
written, but runs on windows, all unixes, and VMS. We are thinking of 
moving to QuickFix, but we need to port it to VMS. If anyone has had any 
experience with that kind of sport, I'd be happy to have some feedback. I 
already compiled libxml2 (had to disable a few functions new to 2.6.17 and 
some const pointers that the C vms compiler considered not const) but I do 
have a libxml lib. I am now in the process of rewriting a config.h and 
makefiles. 

Second, non technical question I have, is about Fixml : how often is it 
found in real life production applications ? If I want to developp a fix 
server to collect orders in Fix format, should I really develop this 
part, which seems right now pretty unused to me, at least in Europe. I 
found some opinions in this direction in the archives, but that was nearly 
a year ago.

TIA for any hints.

Sincerely,
John GALLET