Compile Basic program to run on lower version of VMS

[Faye Dixon]

I have compiled a program on a machine with VMS 7.2 but wish to run it on a machine with VMS 6.4. I get the message
"%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image DEC$BASRTL"
"-CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file [SYS0.SYSCOMMON.[ [SYSLIB] DEC$BASRTL.EXE"
"-SYSTEM-F-SHRIDMISMAT, ident mismatch with shareable image"
Unfortunately we don't have a licence to compile on the machine of lower version but need a way to do this as there are other programs that may need to be amended in this way.

[Karl Rohwedder · Accepted solution]

Have you tried to just compile it on V7.2 and to link it on 6.x (4 must by a typo)?

regards Kalle

[Daniel Fernandez Illan]

Faye
I think that you can compile on newer version and link it in older version.
Saludos.
Daniel.

[Faye Dixon]

Thank you very much.
I compiled the program (basic/scale.....) on the VMS 7.2 machine and then linked the program using libraries fron the 7.2 machine on teh 6.4 machine and it works!
Thank you

[Faye Dixon]

See previous post!