[Monotone-devel] Re: Interest in a mtsh Windows port

[Christof Petig]

Christof Petig wrote:
> Hi Timothy,
> 
> do you currently plan to port mtsh to windows? I might be able to get
> fund to do the port but wanted to ask you first.
> 
> I already wrote a pipe+exec+fork (bidirectional asynchronous pipe)
> equivalent for the nvm.cvssync.win32 branch, so it's mainly a matter of
> adapting mtsh to it (and I have years of gtkmm on windows experience).
> 
> Interested? Should we use the Netxx framework like monotone or should I
> put together something less intrusive? Perhaps even the glib people
> would be interested in solving this once for all (for monotone this was
> clearly way off) [get's much more work down this road]

I see that there is already a windows port in existance (nowhere
mentioned on the web site ;-) ) and the following patch was all I needed
to (cross-)compile it with mingw (on an ubuntu system)

I will see how far I get with the executable I got.

   Christof

# 
# old_revision [85c499eda62eb1732493ba5cfbde56a3b682bb0b]
# 
# patch "monotone.cc"
#  from [36b5e28b3fb1ffa71f09f4847b9aa29e17110c21]
#    to [ac520ac8e3574637bb5032cef1ec18c73b7dff01]
# 
============================================================
--- monotone.cc 36b5e28b3fb1ffa71f09f4847b9aa29e17110c21
+++ monotone.cc ac520ac8e3574637bb5032cef1ec18c73b7dff01
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
     }
   //std::cerr<<"kill()\n";
 #ifdef WIN32
-  TerminateProcess(pid, 0);
+  TerminateProcess(HANDLE(pid), 0);
 #else
   kill(pid, SIGKILL);
   int r;
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
   if (!pid)
     return true;
 #ifdef WIN32
-  DWORD r = WaitForSingleObject(pid, 0);
+  DWORD r = WaitForSingleObject(HANDLE(pid), 0);
   if (r == WAIT_TIMEOUT)
     return false;
 #else

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