Thank you Monty, Stewart and Toru,
regarding Stewart's comment:
> I'd recommend 1 over 2. Cygwin is problematic in a number of ways.
Ultimately I too want to achieve that..a perfect MinGW port.
Cygwin port cannot be really considered as a windows port.
Monty, you are correct. it appears to be bit of tough job for starting.
But Cygwin offers a complete set of Linux system calls in a dll
(cygwin1.dll)
I am unable to say "No" to such a good offer.
and as a bonus, complete GNU tool chains. got tempted ;)
status update:
First step was to build libdrizzle and it was a grant success.
after end of the build every libs got compiled and additionally got few exes
in example directory.
See Below:
C:\TEMP\libdrizzle-0.8\examples>dir *.exe
Volume in drive C is Default
Volume Serial Number is E837-29D5
Directory of C:\TEMP\libdrizzle-0.8\examples
07/14/2010 11:24 AM 17,422 client.exe
07/14/2010 11:24 AM 17,422 pipe_query.exe
07/14/2010 11:24 AM 17,422 proxy.exe
07/14/2010 11:24 AM 17,422 server.exe
07/14/2010 11:24 AM 17,422 simple.exe
07/14/2010 11:24 AM 17,422 simple_multi.exe
6 File(s) 104,532 bytes
Next step was to fire a query from windows to Drizzle server running on
Linux:
See below.
C:\TEMP\libdrizzle-0.8\examples>simple.exe -d test -h 10.97.93.243 -q
'select * from t1'
jobin:1
(using default port)
so it appears that it worked well... am i right?
Thank you,
Jobin.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Monty Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/14/2010 01:11 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:15:09 +0530, Jobin Augustine <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >> As a hobby project started working on porting Drizzle to windows.
> >> I don't know anybody already started in this direction.
> >>
> >> have few options before me to start.
> >>
> >> 1. Use MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/)
> >>
> >> 2. Use Cygwin DLL and compile in windows
> >> (i think, postgres initially followed this path)
> >>
> >> 3. Cross compile to windows executable from Linux. (static build)
> >>
> >> Just started with option 2. but don't know whether i am in right
> direction.
> >> if anybody has any previous experience in any of the above, please
> >> guide me.
> >
> > I'd recommend 1 over 2. Cygwin is problematic in a number of ways.
> >
>
> Depends on how large of a task you want...
>
> the MinGW port will be a very large undertaking, because you'll need to
> fix networking code in libdrizzle, and then you'll need to actually port
> drizzle to Windows. (1 and 3 are actually essentially the same amount of
> work - there are like, 3 things you'll need to fix in the build scripts
> to get 3 to work)
>
> Monty
>
>
>
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