Re: Windows port?

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

On 05/18, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:23:23AM -0500, Jason Bacon wrote:
> > Note, however that the WSL has some limitations:
> 
> From my experience, it creates significantly less pain than Cygwin,
> performs a lot better and doesn't need the majority of the source hacks
> that mingw(64) does.

Would I be able to build native Windows binaries and libraries using
pkgsrc under WSL?  (I have no experience with WSL.)  WSL would be a
new pkgsrc platform, right?  Then pkgsrc would need support for a new
compiler, right?  Would the bulk of the work be in adding compiler
support for MinGW, Mingw-64, or Microsoft Visual Studio IDE?  Or is this
whole thing still likely to be prohibitively difficult?

Thanks!

Lewis