Re: Windows port?

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

On 05/18, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 03:35:36PM -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Neither is practical. They only provide a subset of the POSIX APIs and
> therefore typically very extensive changes.

Hi, Joerg!

Do you feel the same way for the WSL approach?  I think the WSL
approach would mean adding support to pkgsrc for a new compiler
(e.g., Microsoft's Visual Studio) that would be invoked by pkgsrc
running inside WSL.  Still too many issues?

Thanks,

Lewis