On 7 Sep 2004, Anuj Goyal <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried doing the port to win32, but did not get very far, windows > does not have a nice fork() call like POSIX, one has to call > CreateProcess and much with the Handle, it's not very pleasant. > > One also has to figure out howto do a mmap() call, I know one can use > CreateMemoryMapping() or something to that effect, but I don't know > the specifics, I was also trying to learn howto use the digitalmars > compiler at the time (because it has syntax more similar to that of > gcc), but I gave up in frustration. There was a LOT of code that > needed to be "ported" and that is not fun work, and it leads to ifdef > hell.
Thanks for letting us know. > I wish the companies that "support" open source (sun, ibm, hpux) would > actually take note of ccache, it is an amazing tool and they only > really have to modifiy ccache.c to get it working for their compiler. I suspect the parts of those big companies that support open source are somewhat separate from the parts that write the proprietary compilers. -- Martin linux.conf.au 2005 - http://linux.conf.au/ - Call For Papers now open! April 18th to 23rd - Canberra, Australia - closes on October 5 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/ccache/attachments/20040908/35c1575c/attachment.bin
