Installing MMK

MMK is an improved version of the old DEC MMS program, essentially both are VMS versions of make.  MMS is so old it tends to choke on the more complex description files of newer Open Source compilations such as Perl.

MMK is available on the freeware CD (look for make-mmk), or the HP FTP site here.  However, these are both old versions so it's best to download the latest version from github here.  The latest version I've installed is v5.1

Once unzipped, it's pretty straight forward to compile it from the folder it was unzipped into:

$ @compile

Then copy the executable in [.BIN-Alpha] into SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE] and the following line to SYLOGIN.COM

$ mmk :== $sys$common:[sysexe]mmk

In order to optimize the MMK build, I first opened compile.com and replaced CC/NOLIST with CC/OPT=(TUNE=HOST)/NOLIST