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

[Davide Pesavento]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 6:52 PM Junxiao Shi
<shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter
>
> C++ is not recommended on Windows.

err... what?

> NDN-CPP and ndn-cxx are both written for Windows. OpenSSL, socket API, etc are all troublemakers. You’ll be in the MXE (MinGW Cross Environment) rabbit hole sooner or later.
>
> If you want video, the least effort way is run it inside Vagrant and connect to X server and PulseAudio server in Windows. You won’t get good frame rate but it should work.
> Otherwise, do what Microsoft recommends and build everything in .Net Framework.

Microsoft's "recommendations" changed a long time ago. A few years ago
they substantially increased the development efforts on their C++
toolchain and now the MSVC compiler and standard library are quite
advanced and support almost all C++17 features. And then there's .NET
Core, which is preferable (portable, more lightweight, ...) if you
don't need to use any Windows-specific .NET APIs.

>
> Yours, Junxiao
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 18:43 Thompson, Jeff <jefft0 at remap.ucla.edu> wrote:
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>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> What will be your build environment on Windows? Visual Studio?  A while ago I tried building NDN-CPP. The hang-up was the dependency on OpenSSL. Maybe there have been improvements for building OpenSSL in Visual Studio.
>>
>> - Jeff T
>>
>>
>>> will I also need to port NDN libraries to windows?
>>
>>
>> Yes. NDN-CCL’s .Net library should already work on Windows.
>>
>>
>> what about C++ counterpart? In fact, if I were to do it, I’d be porting NDN-RTC which uses NDN-CPP.
>>
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