mirrors/git-annex
2
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages 1 Wiki Activity Actions

blog for the day

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
Joey Hess 2013-05-10 18:37:51 -04:00
parent 0cae52901b
commit 09d798f620
1 changed files with 46 additions and 0 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

46
doc/design/assistant/blog/day_260__Windows_dev_environment.mdwn Normal file
View file

@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
Set up my Windows development environment. For future reference, I've
installed:
* haskell platform for windows
* cygwin
* gcc and a full C toolchain in cygwin
* git from upstream (probably git-annex will use this)
* git in cygwin (the other git was not visible inside cygwin)
* vim in cygwin
* vim from upstream, as the cygwin vim is not very pleasant to use
* openssh in cygwin (seems to be missing a ssh server)
* rsync in cygwin
* Everything that `cabal install git-annex` is able to install successfully.
This includes all the libraries needed to build regular git-annex,
but not the webapp. Good start though.
Result basically feels like a linux system that can't decide which way
slashes in paths go. :P I've never used Cygwin before (I last used a
Windows machine in 2003 for that matter), and it's a fairly impressive hack.
----
Fixed up git-annex's configure program to run on Windows (or, at least, in
Cygwin), and have started getting git-annex to build.
For now, I'm mostly stubbing out functions that use unix stuff. Gotten the
first 44 of 300 source files to build this way.
Once I get it to build, if only with stubs, I'll have a good
idea about all the things I need to find Windows equivilants of.
Hopefully most of it will be provided by
<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/unix-compat-0.3.0.1>.
----
So that's the plan. There is a possible shortcut, rather than doing a full
port. It seems like it would probably not be too hard to rebuild ghc inside
Cygwin, and the resulting ghc would probably have a full POSIX emulation
layer going through cygwin. From ghc's documentation, it looks like that's
how ghc used to be built at some point in the past, so it would probably
not be too hard to build it that way. With such a cygwin ghc, git-annex
would probably build with little or no changes. However, it would be a
git-annex targeting Cygwin, and not really a native Windows port. So
it'd see Cygwin's emulated POSIX filesystem paths, etc. That
seems probably not ideal for most windows users.. but if I get really stuck
I may go back and try this method.