Re: porting pmapi to windows

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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, gilly wrote:

> Can I use the pmapi for monitoring from a windows machine (the pmcd & pmdas
> set on linux machines only)?
> Is there any special porting that need to be done?

There is lots of porting (we've done some of this in the past, but
did not complete a fully-functional PCP for anything-from-Redmond).

The main hurdles are:

- you'll need a real C compiler and run-time environment that makes
  your Windows system look like an ANSI C environment

- you'll have to develop the Windows PMDA from scratch