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Old 07-30-2006
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I want to know what are the design considerations to be taken into account. when porting a socket project from Unix platform to another ......
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Old 07-31-2006
It's better to port sources under autotools (http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/) and then (auto)compile program under other platform
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Old 08-01-2006
Sfu

There is a SFU(Services for Unix) software that one can download from www.microsoft.com i am working on a project on this, porting a Unix based project to SFU. has anybody worked on SFU before. What are the design consideration to be taken into account when porting a project from Unix to SFU..
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Old 08-02-2006
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Originally Posted by Hitori
It's better to port sources under autotools (http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/) and then (auto)compile program under other platform
Nononono. No. No, no, no. No. No? No. No! Noooooooo!

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Old 08-02-2006
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Originally Posted by areef4u
There is a SFU(Services for Unix) software that one can download from www.microsoft.com i am working on a project on this, porting a Unix based project to SFU. has anybody worked on SFU before. What are the design consideration to be taken into account when porting a project from Unix to SFU..
Services For UNIX is not UNIX for windows... Services For UNIX is things like Windows-based NFS, lpd, telnet, shell, etc. Unless you're porting Korn scripts, Services for UNIX isn't going to be much help.

If you want a "UNIX for windows" library the closest you're probably going to get is Cygwin.
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Old 08-03-2006
sfu

sfu works exactly like Unix, except that the platform is WINDOWs, so any idea, about the design considerations to be taken into account, when you port a C project written in Unix To SFU
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Old 08-03-2006
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Originally Posted by areef4u
sfu works exactly like Unix, except that the platform is WINDOWs, so any idea, about the design considerations to be taken into account, when you port a C project written in Unix To SFU
It appears you are correct, and that SFU provided more than I thought it did.

The biggest design consideration is that SFU has already been end-of-life'd. Depending on it working in the future is going to be risky, especially given there's no way for users to improve it themselves.

Again, cygwin is a good, non-suck alternative that won't chain you to the whims of a company most of it's users hate.
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