Re: [Sablevm-user] windows? ;)

[Grzegorz B. P. <ga...@de...>]

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
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Grzegorz B. Prokopski <ga...@de...>
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