Re: [Freeipmi-devel] Question regarding windows version

[Albert Chu]

> It's great to see that this thread is still alive.
> I've some Windows server that are IPMI capable, under the hand.
> And I'm seriously considering the option of a mingw port of FreeIPMI,
> and would be pouring some resources into this effort.
> A member of my team very quickly tried a compilation, but it has been
> so miserably failing that he thrown the towel almost instantly...
> 
> So, would you be considering a mingw effort?
> How could we help and synchronize?

I hadn't heard of mingw until now, so I'll have to look at that at some
point.

Awhile back I made sure that FreeIPMI would compile under cygwin, but my
Windows box didn't have IPMI and I left it at the "if it compiles, I'll
assume it works" stage.  Longer term, I am more interested in it working
"natively".

I'm very amenable to patches from the community to simply support a
Windows build.  We can iterate over them on the mailing list, or if
someone out there wants to discuss steps to move forward before pouring
in effort, that's cool too.

I guess I'm not entirely sure of the steps in the right direction.  I
don't have experience developing Windows applications natively, and w/o
a box to test/play on, I sort of can't start learning/fiddling.

Al


On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 20:10 +0100, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> Hi Albert and the list,
> 
> 2012/12/5 Albert Chu <address@hidden>
>         Hi Patrick,
>         
>         > first of all your tool is really awesome. I like the concept
>         and
>         > respect the effort you guys are putting into development.
>         Since
>         > Release you are constantly updating this tool and making it
>         better.
>         
>         Thanks
>  
> I'm seconding Patrick. And especially you Al, you are doing an awesome
> work with FreeIPMI!
> 
> 
>         > I have one little question. We are having many Windows Based
>         Systems
>         > here, so there is no chance I can use and benefit from
>         freeipmi. So my
>         > question is if you have ever considered to do an windows
>         version of
>         > free ipmi. There is only one tool available “ipmiutil” that
>         supports
>         > windows, it is also open source, but lacks some relevant
>         things.  I
>         > would be please to use your free ipmi tool on a windows
>         machine.
>         
>         I personally wouldn't mind trying to get FreeIPMI to work in
>         Windows,
>         however I've never had access to Windows running on an IPMI
>         capable
>         server.  It's something my company just doesn't do.
>         
>         So I just don't have the capability to do it.  I have always
>         hoped that
>         someone from the community would be able to add support.
>  
> It's great to see that this thread is still alive.
> I've some Windows server that are IPMI capable, under the hand.
> And I'm seriously considering the option of a mingw port of FreeIPMI,
> and would be pouring some resources into this effort.
> A member of my team very quickly tried a compilation, but it has been
> so miserably failing that he thrown the towel almost instantly...
> 
> So, would you be considering a mingw effort?
> How could we help and synchronize?
> 
> cheers,
> Arnaud
> 
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