Re: Windows port?

[Jason Bacon <outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost>]

What are your hardware specs?  I suspect you have both a faster machine 
and more patience than I do.

I agree that WSL and Cygwin are fast enough for many purposes.  I 
wouldn't want to build gcc under WSL on the machine I have, though.

For comparison, I ran auto-pkgsrc-setup on 3 identical machines running 
different Unix OSs.  These are old PowerEdge 1920 servers, 4-core Xeon 
5160 3.0GHz, 16G RAM.

CentOS MD-RAID mirror      6:16
FreeBSD Root-on-ZFS          5:57
NetBSD PERC RAID              12:56 (I'd like to know what the 
bottleneck was here, I'd expect NetBSD to be on par with the others)

zile build on NetBSD            7:10

On 05/25/18 05:42, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> After reading this thread, I bootstrapped pkgsrc on one of my WSL  > setups; it tool me less than half an hour to download pkgsrc, > 
extract it, read the list of the prerequisites for Debian, install > 
them and go through the bootstrap. I don't think it was slower than > on 
a NetBSD VirtualBox VM on the same hardware (decent enough laptop > on a 
M.2 ssd). Just for fun I then proceeded to build editors/zile > (as it 
brings another bunch of packages with it), that was over in > another 
half hour (a small patch was required for zile, though). > > I used the 
default location (no /mnt crossing), did not use the > scripts at 
https://netbsd.org/~bacon/. As far as I can see it, it is > completely 
useful for a class of packages (on this laptop I haven't > bothered yet 
to install a local X server and run WSL GUI programs). > > Other than 
that, WSL replaced a number of other programs I used to > install before 
(e.g. ftp client, WinSCP). Add to this the now > built-in under Windows 
10 ssh server and you get rather useful tool > for a mixed environment 
(one can also run the WSL sshd if required). > Cygwin has its uses too, 
running on most Windows versions (and > letting me access DDS tapes 
connected to the workstation, so no need > for tar readers). > > Chavdar 
> > On Fri, 25 May 2018 at 10:02 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost > 
<mailto:joerg%bec.de@localhost>> wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 02:04:54PM 
-0500, Jason Bacon wrote: >> 2. Performance is intolerable in some 
respects. It shows the same >> bottlenecks I'm used to seeing in Cygwin. 
Unpacking the pkgsrc >> dist took an order of magnitude longer than it 
would on a real BSD >> or Linux system on this hardware. GNU configure 
scripts in the >> pkgsrc bootstrap perform about 1 check / second, 
similar to what >> I've seen under Cygwin. I get far better performance 
out of a VM >> guest running BSD or Linux under VirtualBox. > > Were do 
you put the files? There is an open bug report about the > performance 
of the virtual mounts (i.e. /mnt/*). > > Joerg >