[9fans] P9P for Windows?

[9fans] P9P for Windows?

[Georg Lehner]

Hello!

has porting Plan9 from User Space to MS-Windows (and Windows CE) with
the help
of pthreads-win32 [1] already be considered?

Would the drawing routines of drawterm for Windows complement for the
GUI-side of things?

Opinions?  Other approaches?  Effort estimates?

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.

Regards,

    Georg Lehner


[1] http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/

Re: [9fans] P9P for Windows?

[Federico G. Benavento]

don't know about pthreads, but there's a windows Plan 9 port
effort going one http://ib.wmipf.de/pf9/ with set of working tools
including sam


On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Georg Lehner <jorge-plan9@magma.com.ni> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> has porting Plan9 from User Space to MS-Windows (and Windows CE) with
> the help
> of pthreads-win32 [1] already be considered?
>
> Would the drawing routines of drawterm for Windows complement for the
> GUI-side of things?
>
> Opinions?  Other approaches?  Effort estimates?
>
> 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.
>
> Regards,
>
>    Georg Lehner
>
>
> [1] http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
>
>



-- 
Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] P9P for Windows?

[Patrick Kelly]

On Tuesday 06 April 2010 17:07:51 Georg Lehner wrote:
> Hello!
>
> has porting Plan9 from User Space to MS-Windows (and Windows CE) with
> the help
> of pthreads-win32 [1] already be considered?
>
> Would the drawing routines of drawterm for Windows complement for the
> GUI-side of things?
>
> Opinions?  Other approaches?  Effort estimates?
>
> 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.

>
> Regards,
>
>     Georg Lehner
>
>
> [1] http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/

Re: [9fans] P9P for Windows?

[Georg Lehner]

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.

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

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

Regards,

    Jorge-Le�n

Re: [9fans] P9P for Windows?

[Patrick Kelly]

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