RE: [binarycloud-dev] platforms and makefiles

[Andreas A. <a.a...@th...>]

Hi,

> I know there are a few people on here using Windows, and I wanted to give
> you all the heads up that the first revs of the makefile system will not
> support windows at all.
I would not support windows "natively" ist overloading the code, but I
realize that it should work under windows as well. One solution would be
providing a contributed "make-tool-distro" for win. But there are some tools
that provide unix functionality under windoze with more or less effort.

Basically there is the SfU (microsoft ervices for unix) providing a shell
and some common unix commands.

Cygwin is also out there and it provides many gnu programs like bash, make,
bison etc.

MKS Toolkit is another commercial variant especially for developers.

And there is VMWare. You could install linux on vmware and use it as the
serverbox for running make (ok, you need a very faaaaaast machine). Ok thats
much overhead for just a "make". But you might also use it to test the
application on unix browsers, if you did not set up a dedicated linux box.

Andi