On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 04:25:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any plan to build gmond on Windows without using Cygwin?
that has been in the wishlist since the first release of ganglia using cygwin in 3.0, and that was really a hack to test how portable was the APR library we just imported and migrated into, and that somehow resulted in a working build (kudos to the APR developers on that). > If no one else has started working on this, I may be able to spend some > time on it - can anyone make any suggestions about how to proceed? several people had started working on this, sadly no ones work has been ever made public and AFAIK only one had succeeded : http://aprconsulting.ch/ I think the main pain point is to make the code portable enough that is not a hassle to maintain (which is probably the reason why the windows port from aprconsulting is not getting updated faster, but that is just a guess) specially considering that we made heavy use of posix threads (which have a different interface in windows) and libraries that are not portable (RPC/XDR, dotconf and libConfuse) and of course, the lack of experienced system windows developers (which makes a 15 year old Borland C++ veteran that hasn't touch windows except for rebooting into the original left over Windows XP home partition to run Windows Update on his now defunct triple boot Linux / OpenBSD/ Other laptop; an expert) > Various Microsoft tools are available to me, although I'm happy to > consider alternatives, e.g. running gcc natively in Windows if possible. there is mingw (basically a native Windows gcc that generates native windows objects by default and some ported tools that make for a unix like build environment like in cygwin but without the need to run through a complete system emulation like cygwin does). and in the summit Matt mentioned he found some new library that provided for a native interface to windows threads through the POSIX threads interface which could make a mingw port possible which I am afraid I have no references for. with the release of 3.1, a native windows port that could bind into WMI is definitely an interesting risibility as well as the possibility of "cscript" modules and so, by all means if you have the expertise, it might be a good importunity to revive this development, hopefully in an open and collaborative way. Carlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
