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Re: initial attemt at a port of cURL to Plan9

From: Oscar Koeroo <okoeroo_at_nikhef.nl>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:43:01 +0200

On 3/4/12 8:23 AM, Jens Staal wrote:
> Dear list
>
> This is an initial attempt to port curl to Plan9 (i386). The binary
> (+sources) can be found at
> http://ports2plan9.googlecode.com/files/curl-7.23.1.pkg.tbz
>
> The thing compiles with the native Plan9 pcc (Posix c compiler, front
> end to kencc) and the resulting curl binary can at least execute
> "--help" and "--version". Whether it does anything useful is however
> not tested yet...
>
> There are some pretty ugly hacks in there (mostly due to me being a
> self-taught hobbyist with very little actual knowledge) so there is
> definitely room for improvement.
>
> Attached is also a diff (GNU diff -Naur) for a backport of the changes
> to the complete sources.
>
> hopefully people will have some good suggestions of improvements :)

Hi,

This just sounds like fun :-)

Did you build against an SSL implementation, if yes, which one did you try?
I haven't looked at the package yet.

        Oscar

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Received on 2012-04-03