From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Wed,  7 Apr 2010 17:16:15 -0400
User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.32-ARCH; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; )
References: <4BBBA2A7.4040300@magma.com.ni>
	<201004071441.18184.kameo76890@gmail.com>
	<4BBCF3A6.20008@magma.com.ni>
In-Reply-To: <4BBCF3A6.20008@magma.com.ni>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Message-Id: <201004071716.15920.kameo76890@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] P9P for Windows?
Topicbox-Message-UUID: fdac3376-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

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:
> >> ...
> >>=20
> >> 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.
> >=20
> > May be I misunderstood, but theres no need for another Posix layer ontop
> > of windows. Theres already Interix, MingW, and Cygwin.
>=20
> 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=20
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 effectiv=
e=20
subsystem. I prefer it over MinGW or Cygwin. As far as I know, Cygwin doesn=
't,=20
but don't hold me to that, I've rarely used it.

> Regards,
>=20
>     Jorge-Le=F3n