Re: [Sablevm-user] windows? ;)
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From: Grzegorz B. P. <ga...@de...> - 2003-05-25 08:37:00
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W li=B6cie z nie, 25-05-2003, godz. 03:24, DAI...@pr... pisze:=20 > im sure its been asked if this works on windows. im an=20 > OO newb and am installing linux, but its not easy. > how easy/difficult would it be to rewrite/compile a=20 > windows non-cygwin Sable if it cant work without a=20 > change? As for SableVM itself - (almost) all it needs for compilation is POSIX compatible system and C compiler. FWIK on NT line of Windows (4.0, 2000, XP) you have sth. called "posix subsystem" near their kernel. I belive it could be used to provide the functionality SableVM may need. However I never digged this topic further and it may be much more complicated that it seems. Maybe looking at mingw and borland C compilers would give some clues how hard would it be? Basically what you need for SableVM is: - POSIX-compatible environment - C compiler (currently only GCC is capable to compile SableVM, however if needed - that could be worked around with some assembly) Other possibility you mentioned is using cygwin which may be best option to start a windows port. There's also second part of the problem which is GNU Classpath. FWIK - nobody has ported it to Windows yet. I think getting it to compile (at least partially, for ex. w/o GTK-peers) for Windows would be the first needed step. Feel free to ask for more informations Cheers, Grzegorz B. Prokopski --=20 Grzegorz B. Prokopski <ga...@de...> Debian http://www.debian.org/ |