[Nfd-dev] Building NFD on Windows

[Beichuan Zhang]

Felix did the docker image and vagrant for NFD.

https://github.com/named-data-education/ndn-with-docker <https://github.com/named-data-education/ndn-with-docker>
https://github.com/named-data-education/ndn-with-vagrant <https://github.com/named-data-education/ndn-with-vagrant>

I think it’s a cheap and quick way to get NFD running on Windows, though we haven’t tested it.

Beichuan

> On Oct 31, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff
> 
> 20141031 conference call discussed this topic.
> Some opinions are:
> 
> Docker for Windows is a possibility.
> Although it's virtualization based and not native Windows program, it should be sufficient if it gives reasonable performance.
> As long as the socket is accessible, Windows applications can connect to it, without knowing whether it's virtualized.
> 
> Windows Services for UNIX is only available on Windows Server and high-end Desktop editions.
> Cross-compiling with CygWin is more attractive because it can reach larger user base.
> The difficulty of either cross-compiling is expected to be at the same level of Android cross-compiling, and code changes may be inevitable.
> 
> This work should be assigned to a contributor, instead of core NFD developers, because it's relatively independent.
> 
> Yours, Junxiao
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