From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3F6CBB84 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:44:28 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuQBAKjCfUjU436uh2dsb2JhbACBWZBkAQEBDwgFEwOeKQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.30,374,1212357600"; d="scan'208";a="15170294" Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.174]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 16 Jul 2008 18:43:54 +0200 Received: from gate.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de (dslb-088-068-212-247.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.68.212.247]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKwpI-1KJA6b2GF9-0001o4; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:43:53 +0200 Received: from [192.168.0.32] (fw.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de [192.168.1.1]) by gate.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5DCC08C; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:43:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: thousands of CPU cores From: Gerd Stolpmann To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl_Gr=FCnewald?= Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <487DB874.2020702@laposte.net> References: <1215724745.24773.37.camel@flake.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de> <200807151157.22397.ober.14@osu.edu> <1216145029.16617.42.camel@flake.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de> <487DB874.2020702@laposte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:43:52 +0200 Message-Id: <1216226632.12208.1.camel@flake.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+fgiC/pao60lsyi/CzAnN94m5UF/rmssBVQXp 4vAQwYdc7d+ckOeiNslbgsiRaontX2m8NReP2tE4gDZLMtDdP7 y4Z9Ou2eTHU/Wtg0ZmchVR/KbINSJt4 X-Spam: no; 0.00; gerd:01 stolpmann:01 newald:01 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 afaik:01 o'caml:01 gcc:01 viktoriastr:01 64293:01 darmstadt:01 6151:01 6151:01 3.2:98 4.2:98 Am Mittwoch, den 16.07.2008, 10:59 +0200 schrieb Micha=C3=ABl Gr=C3=BCnew= ald: > Gerd Stolpmann wrote: >=20 > > 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 soluti= on > > 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. > >=20 > > 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...). >=20 > I did this a few monthes ago, I followed the NetBSD way, since SFU is=20 > supported by NetBSD's `pkgsrc'. This was really *easy*, thanks to the=20 > efforts of the `pkgsrc' maintainers. However, I did not play that much=20 > with the system, my point was to test SFU by running very Unix-oriented= =20 > and complex proecdures in it. >=20 > See http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html > for general information about NetBSD's pkgsrc; Microsoft SFU is refered= =20 > 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= =20 > on *BSD and MacPorts, if you have used one of them, you certainly will=20 > feel comfortable with `pkgsrc'. Documentation for `pkgsrc' is available= =20 > at http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/, besides the introduction, see=20 > especially sections 3.2 (Bootstrapping) and 4.2 (Installing ports), it=20 > 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 --=20 ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann * Viktoriastr. 45 * 64293 Darmstadt * Germany=20 gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de Phone: +49-6151-153855 Fax: +49-6151-997714 ------------------------------------------------------------