Re: [Quickfix-developers] VMS port of QF

[Joerg T. <Joe...@ma...>]

Hi John,

> 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. 

Having not worked with VMS for years now, I guess there is a decent C++ compiler now. 
Since the UNIX build system of QuickFIX is based on the GNU autotools (automake, autoconf) 
I wonder whether they can also cope with VMS. Perhaps you should check www.gnu.org for 
this; it would make the life much easier. In addition, check if there is a UNIX/POSIX etc. 
compatibility layer on VMS. I am sure, there some stuff of this kind.

> 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.

We are Europe based and doing (Quick)FIX consulting. But up to now I did not hear about 
any production usage of FIXML in Europe. But the best way to find out is probably to post 
the question in the FPL forums at http://www.fixprotocol.org

Looking forward to hear news from the VMS port...

Cheers, Jörg

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