Which version of MS Visual Studio would you use?

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

> Hey Chris
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> Cygwin is an option. Albeit one I wouldn’t use. The guys who did pf9 used
> mingw. Which I also wouldn’t use. I like MS Visual Studio with access to
> the native libraries on the platform of my choice - so colour me bigoted.
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> 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 taste 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, Chris McGee <sirnewton_01@yahoo.ca> 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 <kodogo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> What the subject line says.
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> >> This is not remotely intended to disrespect Sean Quinlan’s 9pm, or the
> guys who did pf9. I’m just asking because there are still chunks of p9p
> that I’d like to have under Windows. Some of the chunks I want (mostly the
> command line utilities, also sam, not so much acme) I’ve 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, don’t use syntax
> highlighting)))
> >>
> >> But, and this is a large but, there are parts of p9port that seem to be
> dependent on the Unix world - unix pipes for one, the stuff about sigjmp
> for another.
> >>
> >> So, what the subject line says, but also - how much of the
> Unix-specific stuff in the current p9p is essential to a port to Windows?
> >>
> >> Go in peace
> >> James V Choate XXXVI
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