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Re: Windows port?

To: "J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: Windows port?
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 01:20:08 +0200

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.

Joerg

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