Hey Chris

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.

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:
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> I was thinking of using Cygwin to see would be capable of compiling p9p.
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> Chris
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>> 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)))
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> Go in peace
>> James V Choate XXXVI
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