Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Running arch on Windows

[Pat Galea]

address@hidden wrote:
> What is the approach taken to make tla work on windows?

Install all of Microsoft Services for Unix (in particular, the Interix SDK).

Use gcc rather than cc (gcc is supplied with the SDK).

Grab, build and install the following gnu utilities:
make, patch, tar, grep (and replace egrep and fgrep with links to gnu grep).

tar configuration requires --host (I used i686-pc-svr4 in lieu of any 
better looking options), and grep requires --build (same again).

tar also needs a makedev() macro (which is pretty trivial; look at 
Cygwin for a good example).

Add #include <rpc/types.h> to url-socket.h.

make everything in the normal way.

The arch test suite should pass. If you want the hackerlab tests to pass 
too, you need to remove the 'which' test in unit-file-names.sh. I think 
this fails because 'which' is returning a DOS style path, but I haven't 
looked into it because it's not pertinent.

OK, that's the bare minimum to get arch working. In my installation, 
I've also installed the gnu diff, just for consistency. But the supplied 
diff appears to work fine.

HTH

Pat Galea
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