Re: Windows port?

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

At this point, the most hassle-free way to have pkgsrc on Windows is to use
"bash on Ubuntu on Windows" and bootstrap pkgsrc in the Linux container.
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 10:35 PM J. Lewis Muir <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost> wrote:

> Hello, all!

> Has anyone considered or worked on a Windows pkgsrc port using MinGW
> [1] or Mingw-w64 [2]?  Are there any known issues that would make this
> particularly difficult?

> I'm aware that the pkgsrc website says, "pkgsrc is a framework for
> building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems...."
> However, I don't know if that's a project goal or more a statement
> of current capability.  In other words, is a "portable package build
> system" (also quoted from the website) a project goal that could include
> Windows?  I would want to bootstrap pkgsrc on Windows and build packages
> for Windows with it.  I'm fine for the port to use MinGW, Mingw-w64, or
> MSYS utilities (e.g., bash, make, gawk, grep, etc.).

> I'm aware of the Cygwin port, but I'm interested in a port that will
> compile for Windows (i.e., binaries and libraries use Windows API
> calls), not for Cygwin (i.e., I do not want to link against Cygwin's
> run-time (cygwin1.dll)).

> I'm asking all of this under the assumption that the pkgsrc
> cross-compiling feature is dead or incomplete.  Am I right about that?
> If pkgsrc cross-compiling were an option, I wouldn't need a Windows
> port because I'd be fine to bootstrap pkgsrc on a UNIX-like OS and
> cross-compile for Windows.

> Thanks!

> Lewis

> [1] http://www.mingw.org/
> [2] https://mingw-w64.org/



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Benny