RE: [GENERAL] Anyone doing a native NT port?

Yeah,

That is pretty much the short of it.  My greatest concern undertaking an
effort like this is the resultant #ifdef/#else/#endif mess that I will need
to make of the code.  We do a lot of cross-platform development here and
ultimately the code begins to look very ugly to anything except a
preprocessor.  The alternative is to put most of the nt-specific code in
separate files, but then we would have to merge over the newer code from the
CVS repository.  It is not a job that I look forward to, but our unix
customers are clamoring for PostGRE on the backend and our non-unix
customers are not going to be satisfied with MySQL.  Sucks to be me, I
guess.

Dave Heinecke
Senior Software Engineer
Axent Technologies

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:maillist@candle.pha.pa.us]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 10:47 AM
To: David Heinecke
Cc: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Anyone doing a native NT port?


> Hello,
>
> My company is pretty impressed with postgre on unix, but we also need a
> native port for nt (it is not an option to have our customers install
cygwin
> on their production systems.)  Ideally we would like to see the backend
> running as a native service under nt.  We have the resources to do the
port
> ourselves (I will probably end up doing the work myself), but I was
> wondering if there was already an effort underway to develop something
like
> this.

Yikes, you want to run the PostgreSQL backend without Unix simulator
support!  Wow, that sounds like a big job.

I know of no one who has done this.  You can see from the FAQ item that
people have running under U/Win too, but I that is a Unix emulator too.

Seems like you would basically be writing another emulator for NT to do
the things we do under Unix, no?

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