Re: [GENERAL] Anyone doing a native NT port? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Anyone doing a native NT port?
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Msg-id 199909271650.MAA02445@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Anyone doing a native NT port?  (David Warnock <david@sundayta.co.uk>)
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> David,
>
> We could definately use this as we have very similar problems. We would
> love to be able to support Win 9x as well.
>
> If you decide to do this then I will provide from our company least some
> time by one or two people to test and help in non coding ways (we have
> no c skills).

Let me just through up a red flag on this.  PostgreSQL uses more Unix
services that most software, and is almost the size/complexity of many
Unix kernels.

This is not going to be easy to do.  CygWin works because it is
emulating the Unix things we need on NT.  To do a native port, you would
have to translate all our unix service calls to NT-style library calls.

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