Ciao Andrea, > Pardon me, but in my opinion if you're asking this kind of questions, > porting the Gentoo build system (or even any non-trivial application > without upstream support) to a different and basically unsupported > environment is way beyond what you can manage with your current level of > technical expertise.
I don't know how far I will get. But if I don't have a lot of experience in the C environment, it doesn't mean that I am out of experience or completly dumb. > In other words, this is not the kind of thing you can solve by > iteratively trying to build, look at what breaks and doing a point fix. > It is not a port between two unsupported environments. The Cygwin layer is well supported. Gentoo Prefix does already run on Interix. I only try to reach a wider audience be porting the existing sources to the Cygwin Layer. The gap to close is rather small. > I am not saying it can't be done, but porting is hard and requires an > in-depth knowledge of the source and the target environment, plus a lot > of development experience in both. You should begin with that, instead > of diving head-first into what is all but a simple task. Maybe the learning curve is to steep and I have to give up. I already reached more than expected and I did learn a lot. It's not in vain. I have documented the results of my research detailed in the wiki. Anybody can pick it up at that point and doesn't need to go the way from the very beginning. I am not the first one, who tried and sure I am not the last. I also profit from the documentations of my forerunners. Al
