Re: Windows port?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:32:14PM -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> 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?

I think you are confusing some things. WSL doesn't require any changes
at all. It really behaves just like a Linux distribution. I've been
using it for month exactly for that purpose.

Joerg