[bind10-dev] WIN32 port

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Francis Dupont wrote:

> => as usual the real choice is between a little time now or a bigger 
> time later. BTW if the test machine is ready we can talk about to add 
> a WIN32 build & check on it. I am reading to help (with a new Subject 
> line?), needed things are:
>  - Windows 7 license (home edition is enough but please go to 64 bits)
>  - Visual Studio C++ (I use the free Express version but if we want to
>   build bind9 too a paying (i.e., expensive) version is required.
>   The VS shell stuff is included in paying versions too so IMHO it is
>   better to install more than Express)
> >>From these and an (admin) account on the VM I can finish.

I am working on this with OPS.  I will let you know as we get closer.

Will it have a POSIX shell environment? (Sorry I don't know Windows well 
or Visual Studio.)  If it can run my portable shell scripts plus git and 
scp and curl/wget (or similar) to fetch data to work with existing 
automated build system that would be great.

But how are the build (make) rules generated?  I am guessing we will not 
use autoconf/automake suite on Windows ... or are we?