On 16 December 2016 at 14:09, <contactme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Jens, > > bad news, but good to know. > > Is there any way to run "fio --server" on Windows? Maybe "native" cygwin? > If that would be possible, how would I compile it? > > When I run "configure" it automatically detects Windows and tries to > use mingw32 (which I don't want to use) > > root@WIN-OJQRIHLM3VR ~/fio/fio-fio-2.15 > $ make > FIO_VERSION = fio-2.15 > CC crc/crc64.o > /bin/sh: x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc: command not found > make: *** [Makefile:314: crc/crc64.o] Error 127 Fixing the configure script to default to a different compiler will only be the start - you will also need to add code to teach the fio build about the "cygwin" platform. This will involve multiple changes such as including different headers, linking against the different libraries and calling cygwin functions (such as fork) rather than the current Windows stubs... -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
