[Nfd-dev] Wondering about NFD on Windows...

[Junxiao Shi]

Hi Peter

I’m wondering about feasibility of building/using NDN application on
> Windows.
> I see that the very first attempt
> <https://github.com/yoursunny/NFD-Windows> to run NFD on windows was
> abandoned due to huge amount of work required to port the code.
>

Its abandonment is not caused by “huge amount of work”, but triggered by
WSL.
If there were no WSL, I would be still releasing MXE binaries.

The more feasible solution seem to be using WSL
> <https://yoursunny.com/t/2018/NFD-on-Windows-10-WSL/>. I’d like to
> clarify few things regarding that:
>

Thanks for reading my blog posts. I’ve been discouraged from writing NDN
related blog posts because nobody is talking/tweeting about them. You are
one of the first that asked a related question.


> - does anyone know whether ethernet faces (specifically L2 multicast)
> support is now available on WSL?
>

Still no. AF_PACKET is unavailable in WSL. See
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1515

- if I have an app outside WSL that tries to connect to NFD locally, will
> it fail? (i guess it will, since there should be an issue with connecting
> over Unix socket which is non-existent on win64).
>

AF_UNIX is coming to Windows 10 Professional/Enterprise, but I don’t know
when.
Currently the socket lives inside WSL and you can’t connect from Windows
side.

what could be the steps to make this app work with NFD (connect over
> udp/tcp to localhost)?
>

UDP unicast and TCP both work.

will I also need to port NDN libraries to windows?
>

Yes. NDN-CCL’s .Net library should already work on Windows.

Yours, Junxiao

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