Re: [9fans] P9P for Windows?

[Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 07 April 2010 17:05:42 Georg Lehner wrote:
> Patrick Kelly wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 April 2010 17:07:51 Georg Lehner wrote:
> >> ...
> >> 
> >> I will be able to throw some time at work on creating either a posix
> >> layer or
> >> alternatively port Plan9's libc and rc to Windows CE in the next half
> >> year.
> > 
> > May be I misunderstood, but theres no need for another Posix layer ontop
> > of windows. Theres already Interix, MingW, and Cygwin.
> 
> Maybe you overlooked the "CE" part.  My target is Windows Embedded CE,
> primarily for ARM platforms.

Terribly sorry

> MingW has some possibility to cross-compile for this target.  Last time
> i looked at
> it i thought it would be too much hassle.

Window's dosen't have the best POSIX support. If your going to do this, I 
wouldn't recomment using a POSIX layer.

> Interix and Cygwin ... don't know about possible cross compiling
> posibilities.

Interix isn't supported on CE, like you mentioned, but it's a very effective 
subsystem. I prefer it over MinGW or Cygwin. As far as I know, Cygwin doesn't, 
but don't hold me to that, I've rarely used it.

> Regards,
> 
>     Jorge-León