From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <052AE7BC-8AD5-4C0D-9E7A-F67F9B02905C@gmail.com> <142EFC4E-150D-4752-9FBD-3FDB4EE4E967@yahoo.ca> <84F7F989-9A31-4295-8A02-91A4EF65EA1A@gmail.com> From: Andrew Simmons Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-D32DBF95-1E3E-4DFC-99BD-6F9B37C236E1 In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <3D735A8A-DDAF-4FC9-8FC2-88618BBD151E@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:34:59 +1200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9fans] Any demand for a supported Windows version of p9port? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9692b5da-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail-D32DBF95-1E3E-4DFC-99BD-6F9B37C236E1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'd use whichever version is the latest free one. VS2015 community edition i= s the one I use, but MS are still pretty good about backward compatibility, s= o any previous version should do. > On 28/07/2016, at 5:09 PM, Joseph Stewart wrote= : >=20 > Which version of MS Visual Studio would you use? >=20 >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Winston Kodogo wrote:= >> Hey Chris >>=20 >> Cygwin is an option. Albeit one I wouldn=E2=80=99t use. The guys who did p= f9 used mingw. Which I also wouldn=E2=80=99t use. I like MS Visual Studio wi= th access to the native libraries on the platform of my choice - so colour m= e bigoted. >>=20 >> I was kind of wondering if there was an option for people who like Micros= oft development tools to build Plan9 tools, which are admittedly a minority t= aste in the Windows world, without spending several weeks installing 3rd par= ty tools and then being told how stupid they are. >> > On 28/07/2016, at 1:27 PM, Chris McGee wrote: >> > >> > I was thinking of using Cygwin to see would be capable of compiling p9p= . >> > >> > Chris >> > >> >> On Jul 27, 2016, at 9:08 PM, Andrew Simmons wrote: >> >> >> >> What the subject line says. >> >> >> >> This is not remotely intended to disrespect Sean Quinlan=E2=80=99s 9pm= , or the guys who did pf9. I=E2=80=99m just asking because there are still c= hunks of p9p that I=E2=80=99d like to have under Windows. Some of the chunks= I want (mostly the command line utilities, also sam, not so much acme) I=E2= =80=99ve managed to build under Microsoft Visual Studio (note to self - wash= mouth out and learn to eschew IDEs and love mk ((also, sub-note to self, do= n=E2=80=99t use syntax highlighting))) >> >> >> >> But, and this is a large but, there are parts of p9port that seem to b= e dependent on the Unix world - unix pipes for one, the stuff about sigjmp f= or another. >> >> >> >> So, what the subject line says, but also - how much of the Unix-specif= ic stuff in the current p9p is essential to a port to Windows? >> >> >> >> Go in peace >> >> James V Choate XXXVI >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >>=20 >>=20 >=20 --Apple-Mail-D32DBF95-1E3E-4DFC-99BD-6F9B37C236E1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I'd use whichever version i= s the latest free one. VS2015 community edition is the one I use, but MS are= still pretty good about backward compatibility, so any previous version sho= uld do.

On 28/07/2016, at 5:09 PM, Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:
Which version of M= S Visual Studio would you use?

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Winston Kodogo <kodogo@gmail= .com> wrote:
Hey Chris

Cygwin is an option. Albeit one I wouldn=E2=80=99t use. The guys who did pf9= used mingw. Which I also wouldn=E2=80=99t use. I like MS Visual Studio with= access to the native libraries on the platform of my choice - so colour me b= igoted.

I was kind of wondering if there was an option for people who like Microsoft= development tools to build Plan9 tools, which are admittedly a minority tas= te in the Windows world, without spending several weeks installing 3rd party= tools and then being told how stupid they are.
> On 28/07/2016, at 1:27 PM, Chri= s McGee <sirnewton_01@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> I was thinking of using Cygwin to see would be capable of compiling p9p= .
>
> Chris
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>> On Jul 27, 2016, at 9:08 PM, Andrew Simmons <kodogo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What the subject line says.
>>
>> This is not remotely intended to disrespect Sean Quinlan=E2=80=99s 9= pm, or the guys who did pf9. I=E2=80=99m just asking because there are still= chunks of p9p that I=E2=80=99d like to have under Windows. Some of the chun= ks I want (mostly the command line utilities, also sam, not so much acme) I=E2= =80=99ve managed to build under Microsoft Visual Studio (note to self - wash= mouth out and learn to eschew IDEs and love mk ((also, sub-note to self, do= n=E2=80=99t use syntax highlighting)))
>>
>> But, and this is a large but, there are parts of p9port that seem t= o be dependent on the Unix world - unix pipes for one, the stuff about sigjm= p for another.
>>
>> So, what the subject line says, but also - how much of the Unix-spe= cific stuff in the current p9p is essential to a port to Windows?
>>
>> Go in peace
>> James V Choate XXXVI
>>
>>
>>
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