[Nfd-dev] Building NFD on Windows

[Burke, Jeff]

Hi Junxiao & all,

Thanks. We can try one of the virtualization options suggested initially and see how performance goes.

Jeff

From: Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu<mailto:shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:39:56 -0700
To: Jeff Burke <jburke at remap.ucla.edu<mailto:jburke at remap.ucla.edu>>
Cc: "nfd-dev at lists.cs.ucla.edu<mailto:nfd-dev at lists.cs.ucla.edu>" <nfd-dev at lists.cs.ucla.edu<mailto:nfd-dev at lists.cs.ucla.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Nfd-dev] Building NFD on Windows

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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