Re: [9front] Greetings! (and few questions)

[fulton@fulton.software]

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On your last question, any thing that file(1) returns as a `* plan 9 executable` should run as long as the arch is compatable with your kernel. Go (and plan9's linker) ouputs staticly linked executable's so it should be able to run on any plan9/9front machine.

- Fulton

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From: Bogunix M <bogunix@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: [9front] Greetings! (and few questions)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 22:43:34 -0800
Message-ID: <CAL7Qv_NifU7Nzh9oOK=DtFr2nZm-tEUnnuE1xcvhf8bQjzRteg@mail.gmail.com>

Good day!

I read the <9front dash1 manual> and fully understood the point <0.1.3
- Plan 9 is not for you>.

Still, I was wondering if you could help me with a little advice(s).
In particular, while playing with 9front I found myself looking for a
two-panel file manager and went on a quest to write one in Go.

Now, after having something breathing [1] and achieving
cross-compilation with Plan9, I discovered that this is not enough.
Current show-stopper is lack of Plan9 support by the underlying
library TCELL [2]. Issue is described in some details in [3] and [4]:

"...plan9 does not use escape sequences at all, nor does it use ttys.
It appears you need to interact directly with libdraw and with the
events subsystem..."

I am wondering if someone would be interested to contribute time to
explain the scope and potentially sketch the solution?

Another related question is whether Plan9, 64-bit binaries, compiled
by Go will work in 9front? The same question is currently unanswered
on Stackoverflow [5].

Sincerely,
Bogunix

[1] https://github.com/mushkevych/9ofm
[2] https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/
[3] https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/issues/402
[4] https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/issues/90
[5] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65194285