[Nix-dev] Nix on Windows

[Joachim Schiele]

good work.

since windows seems to not use RPATH or absolut path names to libraries
i thought you could hash the libraries and then pass the hash as a name.

we got hash in kademlia (DHT), we now got it in the nix-store and now
just go on and use them as library names. so instead of libabc.dll your
library will be called: 39v2039w093v9348304.dll

i would put this things into the hash:
- hash of the library
- hash of the libraries name

would be interesting to see an implementation of that.

regardless of this small detail, i really enjoyed to read this report
and it seems that the MS platform still got a lot of work ahead in
making Nix a permanent contribution to it.

the other thing, making Nix a native target instead of using a unix like
wrapper, is a very good idea IMHO. if you want to go on you have to get
rid of fork and similar but you also have to get rid of the build-system.

see this posting where i've replaced autotools by cmake:
http://blog.lastlog.de/posts/replacing_automake_by_cmake/

note: this port to cmake still has a few issues yet

anyway, using cmake could be a good start as it does not require a unix
like shell.

regards,
joachim

On 08.09.2015 13:14, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We got around to publish the technical report we were preparing as part
> of our work on porting nix and nixpkgs to cywin:
> 
> http://ternaris.com/lab/nix-on-windows.html
> 
> As a next task https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix_on_Windows should probably be
> updated based on this.
> 
> Is anybody using Nix on cygwin and could help with that?
> 
> 
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