Re: [Caml-list] Re: thousands of CPU cores

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 16.07.2008, 10:59 +0200 schrieb Michaël Grünewald:
> Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> 
> > Well, there's now SFU for Windows (but only for XP Professional and
> > Windows 2003, not for XP Home and Vista, AFAIK). That's a cool solution
> > when you want to run Win32 and POSIX programs on the same system, and
> > maybe an alternative to using virtualization. But it is nothing for
> > developing consumer programs on Windows.
> > 
> > Btw, has something tried to compile O'Caml on SFU? It's a 230M free
> > download. There seems to be gcc and lots of GNU stuff, too (yes, it's
> > from MS...).
> 
> I did this a few monthes ago, I followed the NetBSD way, since SFU is 
> supported by NetBSD's `pkgsrc'. This was really *easy*, thanks to the 
> efforts of the `pkgsrc' maintainers. However, I did not play that much 
> with the system, my point was to test SFU by running very Unix-oriented 
> and complex proecdures in it.
> 
> See http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html
> for general information about NetBSD's pkgsrc; Microsoft SFU is refered 
> to as Interix here, e.g. in the ``Supported Platforms'' section.

Good to know.

> The `pkgsrc' software is a port infrastructure similar to what is found 
> on *BSD and MacPorts, if you have used one of them, you certainly will 
> feel comfortable with `pkgsrc'. Documentation for `pkgsrc' is available 
> at http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/, besides the introduction, see 
> especially sections 3.2 (Bootstrapping) and 4.2 (Installing ports), it 
> shall be enough to get started!

Yes, I know pkgsrc very well. I used it years ago to build software on
Solaris. Later I took it as starting point for GODI.

Gerd
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