Requirements for building Perl

For VMS/Vax

• VMS 5.5-2 or later
• Dec C. Dec C version 5.3 or better is preferred
• A Make tool. MMS from Digital (Part of the DecSet toolkit), MMK from MadGoat software, or GNU Make.
• Either: VMSTAR and GnuZip to uncompress the standard Perl distribution, or UnZip to uncompress the development versions on genetics.upenn.edu.
• For socket support, a network stack. UCX and Multinet are both known to work.
• If you're compiling with Vax C, Gnu C, or a version of Dec C less than 5.2, you will also need the latest version of the SOCKETSHR library.
• If you're using SOCKETSHR and not using UCX, you'll also need MadGoat's NETLIB

For VMS/Alpha

• VMS 6.1 or Better
• Dec C. Dec C version 5.3 or better is preferred
• A Make tool. MMS from Digital (Part of the DecSet toolkit),or MMK from MadGoat software.
• Either: VMSTAR and GnuZip to uncompress the standard Perl distribution, or UnZip to uncompress the development versions on genetics.upenn.edu.
• For socket support, a network stack. UCX and Multinet are both known to work.
• If you're compiling with a version of Dec C less than 5.2, or don't want to use the Dec C RTL socket interface, you will also need the latest version (0.9D-4) of the SOCKETSHR library.
• If you're using SOCKETSHR and not using UCX, you'll also need MadGoat's NETLIB

For VMS in general

• At least 30,000 blocks of disk space for the final install
• At least 70,000 blocks of disk space for the build
• A PRCLM quota of 3 for the build, 5 for the test
• A PRCLM quota of at least 1 to run perl scripts.