From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: UWIN?
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:05:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALBOmsb4d-+_d6R=vuWtyGtaR792cCcOwUQQxsZ8mwcJarLnJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000f01ce6898$a7e1e4c0$f7a5ae40$@net>
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Bill Meahan wrote:
> Out of curiosity, has anyone tried porting ConTeXt to the UWIN
> environment?
>
> UWIN is very much like cygwin in being a "Unix on Windows"
> environment. However, it is not based on GNU but is Real Unix code
> from AT&T Bell Labs. Many of the utilities are simply the latest
> versions of the original Version 7 Unix utilities, others are from
> BSD, System III and System V. The shell is genuine ksh93, not pdksh
> or bash/dash. There is a POSIX dll to provide a complete POSIX api.
> This is AT&T's own, not the "POSIX subsystem" from Microsoft. The cc
> command is a wrapper for Visual C, gcc or whatever you have. Instead
> of the usual autoconf..configure..make..make install dance you can
> use nmake.
>
> I can run the usual Windows context with a bit of fiddling but it
> would be nice to use the regular setuptex shell script et. al.
I need to make extra effort to get to a windows machine, but if
existing windows binaries work and all you need is a modification is
the two shell scripts to downlad ConTeXt and to set the paths, it
might be easy to add support. However, I have no clue how to even
download UWIN.
Now that Jacob mentioned it: I didn't think of the fact that one might
not necessarily need special cygwin binaries to run ConTeXt in cygwin.
If a simple modification in first-setup.sh and setuptex can do the
job, feel free to suggest the change (platform detection).
If existing binaries don't work, you can write a tutorial (an article
for ConTeXt journal) about how to compile luatex and xetex with nmake.
Mojca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-14 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-14 0:46 UWIN? Bill Meahan
2013-06-14 7:07 ` UWIN? luigi scarso
2013-06-14 7:40 ` UWIN? Hans Hagen
2013-06-14 10:58 ` UWIN? Bill Meahan
2013-06-14 12:21 ` UWIN? Jacob Peck
2013-06-14 19:05 ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2013-06-14 19:13 ` UWIN? Jacob Peck
2013-06-14 20:14 ` UWIN? Mojca Miklavec
2013-06-14 21:51 ` UWIN? Jacob Peck
2013-06-15 15:48 ` UWIN? Bill Meahan
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