On 2014-03-07 18:12, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 7 March 2014 13:50, Rui Paulo <rpaulo_at_felyko.com> wrote: >> On 7 Mar 2014, at 10:38, David Chisnall <theraven_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> >>> On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>> >>>> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davidxu_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>>>> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone >>>>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a problem. >>>> >>>> Is this something we want to support? >>> >>> Yes, definitely. Building FreeBSD on other platforms is one of the requests we get very often from embedded systems vendors. Cheap virtualisation has made it less urgent (they can just stick a FreeBSD VirtualBox VM on their workstations), but it's definitely something we'd like eventually. To my knowledge, no one is working on it, but we should aim to make life easy for whoever does... >> >> I guess I should clarify: I wasn’t talking about cross building in general, but specifically on Windows. It’s far easier to setup a case-sensitive file system on OS X and cross build FreeBSD from there than it is on Windows. > > Over 50% of the people that come to FreeBSD.org run windows. If it is > possible to support building on windows, we should try. > Even well shy of 'building' on windows, I do most of my docs work on windows. I even wrote most of the new code for bsdinstall on a windows machine. Being able to checkout the svn tree and work on it on my existing work station is nice. -- Allan Jude
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