On 07/14/2010 12:21 PM, Jobin Augustine wrote: > 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.
> 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? Excellent! Looking good. > > > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Monty Taylor <[email protected] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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 > > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
