We could, although I've generally been in favor of writing the low-level
code ourselves so we have few library dependencies. That doesn't always
work out, and it would be cool to have a ``libuv`` io-backend that is more
portable.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Björn Lindqvist <bjou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe that's a good argument for using libuv
> (https://github.com/libuv/libuv)? The big problem with bsd appears to
> be that its io system is different so it's hard to keep it up to date.
> libuv provides an async io layer which is the same on windows, mac,
> linux, bsd and others. So you would only have code for one api (libuv)
> than for each os.
>
> 2015-07-09 16:49 GMT+02:00 John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com>:
> > We used to have BSD support but it wasn't easy to maintain for each of
> > FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, and it seemed no one used it, so it was
> > removed awhile back:
> >
> >
> >
> https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/commit/8cf18d1a82f08d1e9edf20f38b42eb1699ca0e67
> >
> > Perhaps that commit can give you a rough idea of what would be required
> to
> > make it work.
> >
> > If it's something you really want, I'd be happy to help, although I need
> to
> > setup a good FreeBSD test machine to use.
> >
> > What are your thoughts on supporting all the BSD's?
> >
> > Best,
> > John.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Björn Lindqvist <bjou...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Are you able to build the factor binary? That's the first step. It's
> >> hard to see in the diff in your repo what could be wrong. You could
> >> try adding:
> >>
> >> #define __linux__ 1
> >>
> >> to the top of platform.hpp and then run "make linux-x86-64" or "make
> >> linux-x86-32", depending on your cpu arch. That should give you a
> >> runnable factor binary. There are a few steps after that too, but it
> >> is easiest to learn the process one step at a time.
> >>
> >> 2015-07-09 11:53 GMT+02:00 Dave Cottlehuber <d...@skunkwerks.at>:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I'm new to factor & forthy languages.
> >> >
> >> > I forked [1] & started looking at building factor on FreeBSD 10.1
> amd64,
> >> > but ran into some trouble compiling. I made some changes[2] but
> >> > ultimately got lost in the makefile stuff. Is anybody more familiar
> with
> >> > how this should work? This seems like it's almost there: [3].
> >> >
> >> > GIT_URL=git://github.com/dch/factor.git ./build-support/factor.sh
> update
> >> > |& tee /ramdisk/factor-build-FreeBSD-10.1-amd64.log | dpaste
> >> >
> >> > [1]: http://github.com/dch/factor
> >> > [2]: https://github.com/dch/factor/commit/faacbb5
> >> > [3]: https://dpaste.de/tRb9
> >> >
> >> >
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