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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
