(off-list) Hi.
It is indeed great to see this move forward. I hope you can get it working well. Personally I would like to be able to run Windows builds of Firefox on it, and LibreOffice too, one day. I can't offer much Windows-specific help since I know zero about Windows internals. I can help with V specific questions, obviously .. so if you have any, please mail me (or, better, the V developers list and cc me). Also, please feel free to connect to #valgrind-dev at freenode.net. It is quite quiet during the day (CEST) but often there is some talk in the evenings. There are not many people in the channel, but most of the current V developers visit there at least once a day, so you should be there too. > Since its inception last November, significant progress has been made. > But it is still a long way to go. So I'm calling again for any > interested developers to join the project. Having ported V to some strange platforms over the years, I would say that some of the problems you are trying to solve (PDB reading, etc) are so specialised that it is likely you are already "the" expert on them. So it is relatively unlikely you will get much help, not because people are unhelpful but because it requires such specialised knowledge. I have seen this many times, eg, there are zero current maintainers for some parts of the MacOS port, because only one person ever understood it completely, and that person is not currently active. So .. it might be more successful for you to concentrate on the really difficult bits of the problem (eg, PDB reading, Windows syscalls/exceptions, etc) and try to get other people to try to do the more accessible parts, particularly testing, checking, feedback etc. Just my 2 euro-cents .. I would be interested at least to try it out. Another thing is .. maybe concentrate on just one variant (eg, 32-bit on some specific version of windows) and get that to work well. For one thing, having one variant that works well will pull more people in (since they can actually use it for real work) and it is encouraging, at a personal level. That is how all the other ports have developed, historically. I looked at the web site briefly. Is it possible to make a summary page describing (1) what combination of things (Windows versions, MSVC versions, etc) work best, and (2) giving simple instructions on how to check out and build? That would be useful, I think. J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
