Re: Is there a Windows version of SableVM?
Andy Madigan <[email protected]>
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--- Chris Pickett <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen Compall wrote: > > "Grzegorz B. Prokopski" <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > >>The other option would be to get for ex. MSVC compiler and compile > >>SableVM with it to get truly native port of SableVM. > > > > > > Even neater would be to get it compiling with MinGW. > > In my opinion, a truly native port will not use the POSIX thread > layer > for Windows, although I'm not sure if this is realistic. Building > with > MinGW and the layer does seem like a logical step forward. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > SableVM-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://sablevm.org/lists/control/listinfo/sablevm-user > I'm fairly sure that building w/ MSVC would make it require msvcr7.dll, which is non-free. Using mingw seems like the best option, and I personally don't even have msvc installed on my system. Also, wouldn't using the windows system directly mean big changes to the code? That would seem to be a bad idea, unless building under mingw lead to an unacceptably slow or big vm. =====