Re: [hobbit] Any way to run Hobbit on Windows?

[Henrik Storner <henrik (at) hswn.dk>]

In <41F56BC6.60704 (at) charter.net> Martin Parrott <parrottm (at) charter.net> writes:

>I am new to the list, so sorry if this has been covered. I know the 
>Hobbit info says it only runs on Un*x type OS's, but I was wondering if 
>there was any way to get it compiled and running under Cygwin or 
>something similar? I would like to get it up and running for my LAN at 
>home, but I only have Windows machines.

Feel free to attempt it, but I'm fairly sure it will not work. Hobbit
uses a *lot* of very Unix-ish stuff: Pipes, semaphores, shared-memory,
signals ... I would be surprised if Cygwin was up to running it.

Your best bet is to dig up some old, unused PC and put Linux on it.
Hobbit doesn't require the speediest of hardware to handle a small
LAN, so I think that's the easier path to take.


Regards,
Henrik