Re: Windows port?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:06:45PM -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> On 05/22, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > I think you are confusing some things. WSL doesn't require any changes
> > at all. It really behaves just like a Linux distribution. I've been
> > using it for month exactly for that purpose.
> 
> I understand that, but I want to use pkgsrc in WSL to build Windows
> libraries and binaries that can be used outside of WSL.  That's why I'm
> thinking and asking about adding support to pkgsrc for a new compiler
> such as Microsoft's Visual Studio.  Basically, I've got software that
> can be built for Linux, macOS, and Windows, and ideally I'd like to use
> pkgsrc to build that software on and for each of those platforms.

But that's cross-compiling again, a vastly different problem again. It
also doesn't fix the problem that a lot of non-trivial software simply
doesn't build against the Win32 APIs without a lot of work.

Joerg