Eric Lemings wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Sebor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Interix
Eric Lemings wrote:
FYI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
I like it (Windows SFU/SUA) better than Cygwin.
The page says that
"The most recent releases of Interix, 5.2 and 6.0, are components
of the Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Vista distributions..."
Does it mean that it's available out of the box on every Win2k and
Vista box? It'd be great if we could use the same infrastructure
on Windows as we do UNIX, if only for nightly testing.
Not sure about 2003 but it's a "feature" of Vista that is disabled by
default. From what I've seen, it's actually just an install manager
that downloads the software from Microsoft and installs it. So it is
available "out of the box" in that respect. :)
In any case, it's a pretty simple download and install procedure. It
is supported on XP as well.
We should give it a try, especially since, as you said, it comes
with a UNIX wrapper for MSVC. I wonder if compiling with it will
turn MSVC into a UNIX compiler. If so, we'll need to change
a boatload of #ifdef _MSC_VER conditionals in our code so as not
to necessarily automatically assume Windows.
Martin
