Windows/MingW Support?

[Heuristics]

I was interested in this project and attempted to compile it in windows. I do not know if windows via mingw is even a target that the maintainer is interested in supporting (if not then just ignore this)

My setup: Windows 7 with gcc (x86_64-posix-seh-rev0, Built by MinGW-W64 project) 4.8.3

I generated build files with cmake, this went fine, I just had to tell it where my boost libs were.

Then I attempted to kick off the build.

in sodium\lock_pool.h it complained at "#error This architecture is not supported"

I guess this is due to mingw 64bits not definining WORDSIZE. So I added: `#ifndef WORDSIZE #define __WORDSIZE 64 #endif` At the top of the file and then that went away.

Then the second problem: in sodium\transaction.h The compiler cannot find #include <pthread/pthread.h> This is off course due to me not having pthreads installed (Edit: spoiler alert, I was wrong about this, see next post). I would recommend stating that pthreads is a requirement for building the project.Alternatively (and I prefer this solution, but I have no idea if it is viable), replace pthreads with boost threads since they are multiplatform and a dependency on boost already exists.

This is where I am at currently, just wanted to let you know. Back to googling for pthreads in mingw.

BR/ Christoffer

[Heuristics]

Good news, it appears as if my mingw came with a pthreads by default (found this out after trying out a precompiled one from the net).

So, I fixed this by changing a little in sodium\transaction.h

I changed this: #ifdef __linux #include <pthread.h> #else #include <pthread/pthread.h> #endif

into this: #ifdef __linux #include <pthread.h> #elif __MINGW32__ #include <pthread.h> #else #include <pthread/pthread.h> `#endif``

It looks like the compile finished ok now. (have not yet tested if it works)

BR/ Christoffer

[Heuristics]

I attempted to write a simple hello world style application with Sodium and it did not go so well, I am guessing the compililation was not done correctly.

The code:

#include <iostream> #include <sodium/sodium.h> using namespace std; int main() { cout << "Hello world!" << endl; sodium::transaction<> trans; return 0; }

If the line sodium::transaction<> trans; is commented out this application prints hello world as expected, but if it is not commented out then the application does not print anything out, just exits. This is a little too odd for me to know what is going on.

[the-real-blackh]

Sorry about the delay in replying. I didn't get notified for some reason. I would really like to sort these kinds of issues out. I'll have time to do so when I have finished the book, which is really soon.

[adishavit]

@the-real-blackh: Is there any chance to see Sodium work with Visual Studio? Why the dependency on pthreads? Aren't std or boost threads and associated utilities sufficient?

[the-real-blackh]

I'd certainly appreciate help with this. I have a lot of things on my priority list before I get to that. Here are my priorities at the moment:

I'm using the C++ version in a commercial project so the code is pretty solid. Having said that, there is a very tricky memory management issue to do with cycles and the use of reference counting pointers. This will affect you if you use a 'switch' a lot. I am working on a solution for this in a directory called v2/

Now that I've finished the book writing, the Java version is the model, but I need to bring the other implementations up to the same standard. This will mostly involve code for generating the same test cases in different languages.

[grahamreeds]

If you split the project into the component languages I am sure that the community will help with ports and contributions. As it stands it is nigh on impossible to just pull the C++ version without pulling the other versions along with it.

GR

Sent from my Nexus 5. On 4 Feb 2016 7:56 p.m., "the-real-blackh" notifications@github.com wrote:

I'd certainly appreciate help with this. I have a lot of things on my priority list before I get to that. Here are my priorities at the moment:

I'm using the C++ version in a commercial project so the code is pretty solid. Having said that, there is a very tricky memory management issue to do with cycles and the use of reference counting pointers. This will affect you if you use a 'switch' a lot. I am working on a solution for this in a directory called v2/

Now that I've finished the book writing, the Java version is the model, but I need to bring the other implementations up to the same standard. This will mostly involve code for generating the same test cases in different languages.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/SodiumFRP/sodium/issues/53#issuecomment-180022728.

[the-real-blackh]

OK - I'll do that.

[the-real-blackh]

The C++ version is now a separate repo 'sodium-cxx'. I'd love to see some work on getting this going on Windows.

[Confuset]

Can be closed i guess… https://github.com/SodiumFRP/sodium-cxx/pull/7