Re: [Fresco-devel] win32 port

[email protected] wrote:
> Hi All -
> 
> I was wondering if there was a need/desire/interest for a win32 port. I
> read that at some point a Fresco TAO port was done (TAO runs on win32).
> SDL has been ported to win32. If gcc is a requirement, mingwin32 is
> available. Can anyone think of other components or issues which could be
> problematic or need to be considered?

omniORB runs on windows, too, so we could start with a minimal change.
I think the major efford needs to go into Prague, which tries to be
as posix compliant as possible. The most difficult parts will be the
ipc buffers (notably ttybuf), and may be the threading. Dunno how far
the pthread library has come on win32.

Regards,
		Stefan