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Date: | 2008-07-16 (08:57) |
From: | Michaël_Grünewald <michael.grunewald@l...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Re: thousands of CPU cores |
Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > Well, there's now SFU for Windows (but only for XP Professional and > Windows 2003, not for XP Home and Vista, AFAIK). That's a cool solution > when you want to run Win32 and POSIX programs on the same system, and > maybe an alternative to using virtualization. But it is nothing for > developing consumer programs on Windows. > > Btw, has something tried to compile O'Caml on SFU? It's a 230M free > download. There seems to be gcc and lots of GNU stuff, too (yes, it's > from MS...). I did this a few monthes ago, I followed the NetBSD way, since SFU is supported by NetBSD's `pkgsrc'. This was really *easy*, thanks to the efforts of the `pkgsrc' maintainers. However, I did not play that much with the system, my point was to test SFU by running very Unix-oriented and complex proecdures in it. See http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html for general information about NetBSD's pkgsrc; Microsoft SFU is refered to as Interix here, e.g. in the ``Supported Platforms'' section. The `pkgsrc' software is a port infrastructure similar to what is found on *BSD and MacPorts, if you have used one of them, you certainly will feel comfortable with `pkgsrc'. Documentation for `pkgsrc' is available at http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/, besides the introduction, see especially sections 3.2 (Bootstrapping) and 4.2 (Installing ports), it shall be enough to get started! -- Cheers, Michaël