[pskmail] Re: State of the windows pskmail server attempt

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Von: "John Douyere" <vk2eta@xxxxxxxxx>
Gesendet: Sep 29, 2011 11:18:44 AM
An: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: [pskmail] Re: State of the windows pskmail server attempt

Hello Frederic,

Sorry my question was not very clear. I meant the Windows version versus the Linux version through an abstraction layer ( a little bit like WINE but the other way around).

I suspect the answer is the Windows version but then I am not sure what happens to the socket connection used by the Perl server. Is that available in Windows too?

Regards,

John

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Frederic Bouchet Sur Yahoo <frederic.bouchet@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

 

I use fldi for the current qso on windows. On the website of w1hkj you can find a windows installer for fldigi

 

73 Fred f4eed

Bouchet Frederic (F4EED)

Envoye de mon iphone

 

Http://f4eed.free.fr

Http://www.gesadra.fr

Http://fr.groups.Yahoo.com/group/dx_uti_fr

 

Le 29 sept. 2011 à 09:24, John Douyere <vk2eta@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
 

 

 

Per,

 

This is great great news IMHO.

 

That will help quite a few OMs I believe.

 

Does Fldigi runs natively under Windows then?

 

73, John

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Per Crusefalk <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

As many were asking for a windows version of the server I decided I
should attempt to run it on a windows pc. As I am at the moment in a bit
of a hurry (leaving for work) I will be very brief about where I am with
that effort at the moment.

So what am I trying exactly? Well, I am trying to create an installer
for the standard perl pskmail server. Its not a port to java or any
other environment but an attempt to get the server running in a native
windows environment. With native I mean not in a virtual machine or
within cygwin.

So what have I done so far?
- I have perl running on windows
- I have a special windows installer for the server. It sets up the
directories and gets the necessary modules through cpan.
- I have overcome several obstacles that the windows environment happily
provides. With that I mean that ENV{HOME} does not work, folder .pskmail
does not work. I had an issue with directory separation (\ or /).
- Gotten gnu tools to run properly (windows versions of necessary unix
tools like touch etc).
- Replaced some things that aren't available on windows, like cat (which
is type there but it's not as good).

The state at this very moment is that the server runs but I have issues
with loading and parsing of configuration (pskmailrc.pl).

So, I am quite confident that it is possible to run the server on
windows but it will impact the standard server in some ways. I have to
get the environment stuff to work (like ENV{HOME} etc) and all the
hardcoded paths will have to be made more general etc.

The end result could be a server that runs on both linux and windows.
The windows version will need a special installer of course but
installjammer is good for such things. But, it will take some time as I
have not gotten completely all the errors and warnings yet.... There
will be more issues further down the road..

73 de Per, sm0rwo