Midipix: Posix for Windows

#1

Post by kryptiskt » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 7:09 AM UTC

Re: Midipix: Posix for Windows

#2

Post by opaque_salmon » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 8:05 AM UTC

That's an interesting name choice that might make it hard for me to remember in the future, do you happen to know why they chose it?

In any case, I welcome a posix interface for windows, it would be a cool tool to have, especially in the case of cross-platform utilities.

Re: Midipix: Posix for Windows

#3

Post by fithisux » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 8:05 AM UTC

very interesting. actually, exactly what I was looking for. But how it compares with uwin?

Re: Midipix: Posix for Windows

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 8:26 AM UTC

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Re: Midipix: Posix for Windows

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 8:26 AM UTC

opaque_salmon wrote: post #2

That's an interesting name choice that might make it hard for me to remember in the future, do you happen to know why they chose it? In any case, I welcome a posix interface for windows, it would be a cool tool to have, especially in the case of cross-platform utilities.

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Re: Midipix: Posix for Windows

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Post by greggman » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 8:31 AM UTC

I'm clueless in this area but could git be linked with this so we get a fast good git on windows?

Re: Midipix: Posix for Windows

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Post by ianlevesque » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 8:34 AM UTC

greggman wrote: post #6

I'm clueless in this area but could git be linked with this so we get a fast good git on windows?

I've never had a problem with msysGit [1]

[1] https://msysgit.github.io/

Re: Midipix: Posix for Windows

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Post by exDM69 » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 8:52 AM UTC

This is very interesting, I could certainly use this for porting some of my projects to Windows. But what the website is missing is a "getting started" doc that explains how to set up a toolchain for cross (or native) compiling.

Re: Midipix: Posix for Windows

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Post by tkubacki » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 9:03 AM UTC

Deploying Linux apps on Windows Server is easier these days (Hyper-V).

If you really need decent POSIX OS on Windows just use virtualiztion.

Re: Midipix: Posix for Windows

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Post by greggman » Wed, Jun 03, 2015, 9:12 AM UTC

ianlevesque wrote: post #7

greggman wrote: post #6

I'm clueless in this area but could git be linked with this so we get a fast good git on windows?

I've never had a problem with msysGit [1] [1] https://msysgit.github.io/

Compare it to linux git, it's about 10-20x slower on same hardware