> It's great to see that this thread is still alive. > I've some Windows server that are IPMI capable, under the hand. > And I'm seriously considering the option of a mingw port of FreeIPMI, > and would be pouring some resources into this effort. > A member of my team very quickly tried a compilation, but it has been > so miserably failing that he thrown the towel almost instantly... > > So, would you be considering a mingw effort? > How could we help and synchronize?
I hadn't heard of mingw until now, so I'll have to look at that at some point. Awhile back I made sure that FreeIPMI would compile under cygwin, but my Windows box didn't have IPMI and I left it at the "if it compiles, I'll assume it works" stage. Longer term, I am more interested in it working "natively". I'm very amenable to patches from the community to simply support a Windows build. We can iterate over them on the mailing list, or if someone out there wants to discuss steps to move forward before pouring in effort, that's cool too. I guess I'm not entirely sure of the steps in the right direction. I don't have experience developing Windows applications natively, and w/o a box to test/play on, I sort of can't start learning/fiddling. Al On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 20:10 +0100, Arnaud Quette wrote: > Hi Albert and the list, > > 2012/12/5 Albert Chu <[email protected]> > Hi Patrick, > > > first of all your tool is really awesome. I like the concept > and > > respect the effort you guys are putting into development. > Since > > Release you are constantly updating this tool and making it > better. > > Thanks > > I'm seconding Patrick. And especially you Al, you are doing an awesome > work with FreeIPMI! > > > > I have one little question. We are having many Windows Based > Systems > > here, so there is no chance I can use and benefit from > freeipmi. So my > > question is if you have ever considered to do an windows > version of > > free ipmi. There is only one tool available “ipmiutil” that > supports > > windows, it is also open source, but lacks some relevant > things. I > > would be please to use your free ipmi tool on a windows > machine. > > I personally wouldn't mind trying to get FreeIPMI to work in > Windows, > however I've never had access to Windows running on an IPMI > capable > server. It's something my company just doesn't do. > > So I just don't have the capability to do it. I have always > hoped that > someone from the community would be able to add support. > > It's great to see that this thread is still alive. > I've some Windows server that are IPMI capable, under the hand. > And I'm seriously considering the option of a mingw port of FreeIPMI, > and would be pouring some resources into this effort. > A member of my team very quickly tried a compilation, but it has been > so miserably failing that he thrown the towel almost instantly... > > So, would you be considering a mingw effort? > How could we help and synchronize? > > cheers, > Arnaud > > -- > NUT (Network UPS Tools) Project Leader - > http://www.networkupstools.org > Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org > Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.fr > -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
