Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-07-08 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Eric S. Raymond via devel writes: > I'd love to remove those shims. But AFIK we don't have anyone testing > on Cygwin. Can you? Doesn't compile even after removing the shims. SCons unconditionally looks for winsock2, even after already having found the correct network headers for POSIX systems.

Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-07-01 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Achim! On Mon, 01 Jul 2019 19:10:54 +0200 Achim Gratz via devel wrote: > Gary E. Miller via devel writes: > >> …a platform that you officially do not support but it looks like > >> you may have, in the past. That must have been years, if not > >> decades ago. There's only three instances of

Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-07-01 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Eric S. Raymond via devel writes: > I'd love to remove those shims. But AFIK we don't have anyone testing > on Cygwin. Can you? I'll put it on my list. No promises as to when I might get to it. ProBably only compile and make sure it starts, not actually running with a GPS connected. Regards,

Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-07-01 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Gary E. Miller via devel writes: >> …a platform that you officially do not support but it looks like you >> may have, in the past. That must have been years, if not decades ago. >> There's only three instances of Cygwin-specific code in the current >> gpsd repository. The first one is in

Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-06-30 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Achim! On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 21:10:38 +0200 Achim Gratz via devel wrote: > Eric S. Raymond via devel writes: > > I'm going by the frequency of Cygwin-specific shims I've seen, and > > had to maintain, in GPSD. > > …a platform that you officially do not support but it looks like you > may

Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-06-30 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Achim Gratz via devel : > Eric S. Raymond via devel writes: > > I'm going by the frequency of Cygwin-specific shims I've seen, and had > > to maintain, in GPSD. > > …a platform that you officially do not support but it looks like you may > have, in the past. That must have been years, if not

Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-06-30 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Eric S. Raymond via devel writes: > I'm going by the frequency of Cygwin-specific shims I've seen, and had > to maintain, in GPSD. …a platform that you officially do not support but it looks like you may have, in the past. That must have been years, if not decades ago. There's only three

Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-06-30 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Achim Gratz via devel : > Eric S. Raymond via devel writes: > > It could be re-ported, with sufficient determination. If I were going > > to do it in C I'd use one of the Unix-based cross-compilation > > toolchains rather than native Windows tools or Cygwin - you get much > > better conformance to

Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-06-30 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
James Browning via devel writes: > Also, WSL2 which *might* address adjtimex non-inclusion might be rolling > out now or soon. Except it'll run in a VM that is more or less completely separate from the host system. In particular, it never plugs into the NT kernel. > My 2015 box seems to be

Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-06-30 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Eric S. Raymond via devel writes: > It could be re-ported, with sufficient determination. If I were going > to do it in C I'd use one of the Unix-based cross-compilation > toolchains rather than native Windows tools or Cygwin - you get much > better conformance to modern C and POSIX that way,

Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-06-30 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Hal Murray via devel writes: > Has anybody tried building ntpsec on Windows? Cigwin? I'm just > curious. How close are we? I don't think Cygwin has the library functions for actually adjusting time via the NT kernel yet. Not sure how much effort that would be to emulate. You could always try

Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-06-30 Thread James Browning via devel
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019, 2:06 PM Hal Murray wrote: > > jamesb.f...@gmail.com said: > > It builds on the Windows Subsystem for Linux but does not currently run, > > something about missing adjtimex support. I can't say anything definite > about > > mingsys, cygwin or native. > > Thanks. > > Does

Re: Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-06-30 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray via devel : > > Has anybody tried building ntpsec on Windows? Cigwin? I'm just curious. > How > close are we? Pretty far away. I stripped out most of the old Windows build support because it showed clear signs of bitrot and obsolete assumptions. I left in a crucial bit related

Anybody know anything about Windows?

2019-06-29 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Has anybody tried building ntpsec on Windows? Cigwin? I'm just curious. How close are we? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel