diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 82808de47..9c4e7be36 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+2019-06-16  Werner Lemberg  <wl@gnu.org>
+
+	Towards better VMS support.
+
+	More to come.
+
+	* builds/vms/LIBS.OPT_IA64, builds/vms/_LINK.OPT_IA64,
+	builds/vms/vmslib.dat: New files provided by Jouk Jansen
+	<joukj@hrem.nano.tudelft.nl>.
+
+	* builds/vms/ftconfig.h: Update, also from Jouk.
+
 2019-06-13  Werner Lemberg  <wl@gnu.org>
 
 	* src/autofit/aflatin.c (af_latin_metrics_init_widths): Minor.
diff --git a/builds/vms/LIBS.OPT_IA64 b/builds/vms/LIBS.OPT_IA64
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index 000000000..6768c7662
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diff --git a/builds/vms/_LINK.OPT_IA64 b/builds/vms/_LINK.OPT_IA64
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b8cbd1bc7
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diff --git a/builds/vms/ftconfig.h b/builds/vms/ftconfig.h
index b9c59a853..7825db0fd 100644
--- a/builds/vms/ftconfig.h
+++ b/builds/vms/ftconfig.h
@@ -63,8 +63,6 @@ FT_BEGIN_HEADER
 #define FT_SIZEOF_INT   4
 #define FT_SIZEOF_LONG  4
 
-#define FT_CHAR_BIT  8
-
 
   /* `FT_UNUSED` indicates that a given parameter is not used --   */
   /* this is only used to get rid of unpleasant compiler warnings. */
diff --git a/builds/vms/vmslib.dat b/builds/vms/vmslib.dat
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4c817da44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/builds/vms/vmslib.dat
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+!
+! This is a simple driver file with information used by make.com to
+! check if external libraries (like t1lib and freetype) are available on
+! the system.
+!
+! Layout of the file:
+!
+!    - Lines starting with ! are treated as comments
+!    - Elements in a data line are separated by # signs
+!    - The elements need to be listed in the following order
+!      1.) Name of the Library 
+!      2.) Location where the object library can be found
+!      3.) Location where the include files for the library can be found
+!      4.) Include file used to verify library location
+!      5.) CPP define to pass to the build to indicate availability of
+!          the library
+!
+! Example: The following  lines show how definitions
+!          might look like. They are site specific and the locations of the
+!          library and include files need almost certainly to be changed.
+!
+! Location: All of the libaries can be found at the following addresses
+!
+!   ZLIB:     http://www.decus.de:8080/www/vms/sw/zlib.htmlx
+!
+BZ2LIB # sys$library:libbz2.olb # decc$user_include: # bzlib.h # FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SYSTEM_ZLIB
+PNGLIB # sys$library:libpng.olb # sys$library: # png.h # FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SYSTEM_ZLIB
+ZLIB # sys$library:libz.olb # sys$library: # zlib.h # FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SYSTEM_ZLIB