#989: Windows "native" port
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Reporter: simonmar | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: _|_
Component: Compiler | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: Difficult (1 week)
Testcase: N/A | Architecture: x86
Os: Windows |
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Changes (by sharpe):
* version: 6.7 =>
Comment:
Win port of gmp at [http://fp.gladman.plus.com/computing/gmp4win.htm],
perhaps move gmp out of dist altogether and only link w/ .so or .dll?
Support utils (cgprof, hp2ps,.. etc.) need minor modifications to build
and keep cl from choking on e.g. some exotic C macros (and simple ones
such as macros suffixed with semi-colon).
RTS is more challenging as it contains a mix of C89, C99, C++ code which
gcc happily compiles; minor inconsistencies (STATIC_INLINE here, static
inline there), gcc extensions not supported by cl, inline assembly, void
pointer arithmetic etc.
Adapting the build system is pretty terrible (esp. proper
autoconf,libtool), custom make rules, custom config.h, custom mk files and
some custom Makefile.win32 do the trick but are more difficult to maintain
in the future (cmake?).
Used winsock is deprecated, also i will need to look into signal handling
as this doesn't behave properly (mingw?).
Registered boot attempts fail with alignment errors, as of yet not
resolved (->mix gcc/cl?); will continue on unregistered 6.4 series builds.
Haven't got to real low-level stuff, YASM seems ok and is easily
integrated w/ VS2008.
prepping the environment is pretty easy once you've got around the unixy
build system
(include vcvars variables PATH,LIBPATH,INCLUDE etc.), btw utils/pwd does
not work in mingw using series 6.8.2 (easily resolved).
merging changes will be another fun item.
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