Am Mittwoch, den 16.07.2008, 10:59 +0200 schrieb Michaël Grünewald: > Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > > > Well, there's now SFU for Windows (but only for XP Professional and > > Windows 2003, not for XP Home and Vista, AFAIK). That's a cool solution > > when you want to run Win32 and POSIX programs on the same system, and > > maybe an alternative to using virtualization. But it is nothing for > > developing consumer programs on Windows. > > > > Btw, has something tried to compile O'Caml on SFU? It's a 230M free > > download. There seems to be gcc and lots of GNU stuff, too (yes, it's > > from MS...). > > I did this a few monthes ago, I followed the NetBSD way, since SFU is > supported by NetBSD's `pkgsrc'. This was really *easy*, thanks to the > efforts of the `pkgsrc' maintainers. However, I did not play that much > with the system, my point was to test SFU by running very Unix-oriented > and complex proecdures in it. > > See http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html > for general information about NetBSD's pkgsrc; Microsoft SFU is refered > to as Interix here, e.g. in the ``Supported Platforms'' section.
Good to know. > The `pkgsrc' software is a port infrastructure similar to what is found > on *BSD and MacPorts, if you have used one of them, you certainly will > feel comfortable with `pkgsrc'. Documentation for `pkgsrc' is available > at http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/, besides the introduction, see > especially sections 3.2 (Bootstrapping) and 4.2 (Installing ports), it > shall be enough to get started! Yes, I know pkgsrc very well. I used it years ago to build software on Solaris. Later I took it as starting point for GODI. Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann * Viktoriastr. 45 * 64293 Darmstadt * Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de Phone: +49-6151-153855 Fax: +49-6151-997714 ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
