Vax to Alpha - Recompile Needed?

[Robert Edis]

G'day Steve

I believe as the VAX is a 32 bit processor and the
Alpha is 64 bit you will have to recompile.  32 Bit
compiled apps (executables) will run on the Alpha but
I don'y know about PH because is it really only
semi-compiled.

Instead of re-compiling you could simply run the
source.  What is the client's aversion to the
re-compile?  Do they think the source is incomplete or
out-of-date?

BTW, did HP release OpenVMS for the Itanium processor
yet?  Will PH run in that environment?  

Blue

--- Steve Heaslip <heaslips@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> G'day all
>  
> We have a client that is running a legacy PowerHouse
> system (7.10.g) on an
> ageing Vax.
> They want to move the application to an Alpha
> (currently on the same cluster
> as the Vax) running the same version of Open VMS and
> the same version of
> PowerHouse.
> I've never moved a PowerHouse application to another
> box without upgrading
> SOMETHING - so I've always recompiled. But in this
> instance the client is
> insisting they do not want to recompile unless they
> really have to.
>  
> Can anyone tell me if there's a need to re-compile
> the code?
>  
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Steve Heaslip
>  
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