[distcc] Re: Distccd port

[William]

	I have made two replys to my original message already, reporting my 
progress. In short summary:
	A working distccd port (named DiGin) was made and it sucessfully 
compiled my test program and I was able to link and run it on my Linux box.
	The resulting port is somewhat half-half as far as porting goes, half 
is my own code, the other half is ported versions of the original code.
	I now need to cleanup the code and port some of the extra features.

Thank You for your interest.

~William

Martin Pool wrote:
> On 29 Oct 2003, William <bill at vectracon.com> wrote:
> 
>>I have decided that I would like to take on the task of porting the 
>>distcc daemon system to windows so that I, and possibly others, can take 
>>advantage of windows systems on our network.
>>
>>The current method of doing so just kinda...is poor. That method 
>>includes either cygwin usage, or VMWare usage. Both cause a loss of 
>>computer power, and I, personally, just couldn't get cygwin to work period.
>>
>>Now, I know the crosscompiling will be...weird, but I'll try anyway, 
>>wont be any worse than cygwin methinks.
>>
> 
> 
> Let me know how you go.  Please try to confine the changes to as small
> a layer as you can, so that they can stay up to date if the main
> version changes.
> 
> 
>>I need a slight bit of information though, if anyone would be willing. 
>>I'm reading through the source code right now, but it would be helpful 
>>if someone can tell me the exact steps that are taken by both distcc and 
>>the daemon. Knowing this I can better grok the source code, and in fact 
>>speed up the process of building a basic distcc daemon with which I can 
>>begin testing and building upon.
> 
> 
> You probably already gathered that we decide where to run, run cpp,
> open the connection, send the parameters and preprocessed source, wait
> for the remote compiler to complete, and then write out the errors or
> object.
> 
> If you have other questions that are hard to work out from the source
> please go ahead and ask on the list.
>