Martin,
This is great, thanks!
On 3/16/2023 8:40 AM, Martin Burnicki wrote:
Just for the case that you want to give MSYS2/Mingw a try: I've put
some information together how to get started:
https://wiki.burnicki.net/miscellaneous_tips:20_software_development:msys2_mingw_notes
I've also just recently started to use it, and I'm very happy for what
I've seen so far. You can easily use things like git and ssh from
within the bash shells provided by the build environment.
A tiny example project that looks like a standard project for Linux
and other Unix-like systems can be found here:
https://github.com/mburnicki/hello-mingw
If it would be possible to build NTP for Windows using this toolchain,
we could probably avoid a lot of the hassle we have due to supporting
different VS versions with their various project files.
I'm assuming that it would even be possible to integrate Windows
support into NTP's autoconf/automake stuff and let it detect the
Windows target system, but as mentioned earlier, I'm not familiar with
that auto stuff, so I'm not sure whether this makes sense, or whether
to just create a set of makefiles once for each of the NTP programs.
I specifically did the auto* stuff to allow this.
The build script calls sntp/scripts/cvo.sh, and that script might need a
tweak to make it report something useful.