[Nfd-dev] Building NFD on Windows

[Davide Pesavento]

Junxiao,

The first and potentially biggest problem I see is the compiler. What
compiler do you (have to) use to build a SUA-based application for
Windows?

Thanks,
Davide

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Junxiao Shi
<shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Hi Jeff
>
> Windows Server 2008 contains Windows Services for UNIX.
> There's a possibility of running NFD natively on Windows without major
> changes to the code
>
> If you haven't purchased the hardware, the CPU is likely to have VT-X
> because every CPU produced in recently years support it.
> So the alternate is to install a minimal Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox, expose its
> TCP port, and make Windows applications connect to it.
> The performance penalty due to virtualization is less than 5%.
> Deployment cost isn't necessarily higher, because it could be automated.
> (reference: BOINC VM jobs)
>
> Yours, Junxiao
>
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