From: Puhat
Subject: cmucl under sfu or uwin
Date: 
Message-ID: <1113572678.c50127f09f5ce0c206fecef9150cf9d4@teranews>
Has anyone tried to run CMUCL under services for UNIX on Windows? SFU 
it's a UNIX subsystem running on top of the NT kernel. After some 
googling i found that some people said it was not possible to run CMUCL 
under cygwin out of the box because of the way cygwin works internally. 
I wonder if it might be possible to put it to work under SFU or other 
UNIX subsystem.

Thanks!

From: Carl Shapiro
Subject: Re: cmucl under sfu or uwin
Date: 
Message-ID: <ouyk6n38s4h.fsf@panix3.panix.com>
Puhat <·····@ph.com> writes:

> Has anyone tried to run CMUCL under services for UNIX on Windows? SFU
> it's a UNIX subsystem running on top of the NT kernel. After some
> googling i found that some people said it was not possible to run
> CMUCL under cygwin out of the box because of the way cygwin works
> internally. I wonder if it might be possible to put it to work under
> SFU or other UNIX subsystem.

I researched this approximately 1 year ago using the 3.5 release of
SFU and determined there are problems with the POSIX-style signal
handling on SFU which make this port impossible.  If you search for my
name on the SFU technical forums you can watch the story unravel.
From: David Golden
Subject: Re: cmucl under sfu or uwin
Date: 
Message-ID: <iCX7e.51615$Z14.40095@news.indigo.ie>
Puhat wrote:

> I wonder if it might be possible to put it to work under 
> SFU or other UNIX subsystem.
> 

It might be possible to convince it to run under coLinux, but I haven't
tried (all my computers have been windoze-free since last century). 

coLinux is linux ported to the windows NT kernel, a sort of
family-secret-abomination cousin of the now-commonplace "user mode
linux" (linux ported to linux).  One of those things that's known to be
possible in theory but probably not a particularly sane thing to do,
then someone goes and actually does it.

http://www.colinux.org/
From: Daniel Barlow
Subject: Re: cmucl under sfu or uwin
Date: 
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David Golden <············@oceanfree.net> writes:

> It might be possible to convince it to run under coLinux, but I haven't
> tried (all my computers have been windoze-free since last century). 

SBCL is reported to run under colinux, so I can think of no
particularly fundamental reason that CMUCL shouldn't.


-dan