Article 174295 of comp.os.vms:

In article <5r05jq$fkq@news.wilmington.net>, markad@mail.wilmington.net (MarkD) writes:
:Is there a way to setup a runtime library under VMS?

   Please visit:

   http://www.partner.digital.com/www-swdev/pages/Home/TECH/faqs/ovms/ovms.html

   You'll find a shareable image "cookbook" located there, as well
   as some other documents and examples...

:...It'd be terrific if the components could reside in a library and
:linked/loaded only when necessary.

   If you uniformly follow the "facility naming" and other guidelines
   from the cookbook, and have particularly uniformly provide prefixes
   to all externally-visible routines, then the shareable image you have
   created using the above information can be inserted into the default
   SYS$SHARE:IMAGELIB.OLB library, a shareable image object library that
   is searched by the LINKER by default, and the routines in the shareable
   image will be automatically located by a (default) LINK command.

  -------------------------- pure personal opinion ---------------------------
   Hoff (Stephen) Hoffman   OpenVMS Engineering   h*ffman@xdelta.enet.dec.c*m
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