pkgsrc on... Windows?Amitai Schlairhttps://schmonz.com/2006/06/13/pkgsrc-on-windows/Yareev's schmonz.comikiwiki2017-01-07T18:22:22Zcomment 1https://schmonz.com/2006/06/13/pkgsrc-on-windows/comment_1_86b391f5a8628029a4bf2758bdc7a782/Thorsten Glaser2014-12-30T03:26:33Z2006-06-14T11:34:44Z
<p>May I suggest to ditch<br />pdksh for mksh, for which<br />Interix is a prime target?</p>
<p>Also, the MirOS Project<br />offers an nroff distfile<br />specifically designed for<br />being used with the MirPorts<br />Framework (something similar<br />to pkgsrc®) on Interix.</p>
comment 2https://schmonz.com/2006/06/13/pkgsrc-on-windows/comment_2_81ecaa2fb9825850e46ee813b9d9df71/Amitai Schlair2017-01-07T18:22:22Z2006-07-13T22:15:41Z
<p>Interesting. Is MirPorts generally portable, as pkgsrc is? pdksh is my usual shell on other systems and is already in pkgsrc, so I’m happy with it on Interix.</p>
<p>Responding to my own post, another problem and hacky fix: packages using msgfmt don’t believe gettext-tools is already installed until they finish building it, try to install it, and fail. As a workaround, I reversed the order of the wildcard dependency in the gettext portion of the tools framework:</p>
<p>-_TOOLS_DEP.gettext-tools= {gettext>=0.10.36,gettext-tools>=0.14.5}<br />+_TOOLS_DEP.gettext-tools= {gettext-tools>=0.14.5,gettext>=0.10.36}</p>
comment 3https://schmonz.com/2006/06/13/pkgsrc-on-windows/comment_3_49041d4b533b6cc7d535c95b3817dbb4/Thorsten Glaser2014-12-30T03:26:33Z2006-07-25T15:10:31Z
<p>MirPorts is not as portable as pkgsrc® voluntarily – we only support BSD-like systems (MirOS BSD, OpenBSD, Interix, Mac OSX; net/free/dfbsd could be done easily) but not Solaris, GNU, etc.</p>
<p>mksh is now in freebsd ports too and I hope the pkgsrc port (by dfjoerg) will be committed soon too.</p>
<p>About nroff: you can just download, extract and build it (with nbmake, probably).</p>