What's the pitch for "CUPS 1.2 natively on Win32" ?

[Michael Sweet]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> What is the current state of compiling CUPS (or parts of it, such as 
> the scheduler, or the pstops filter) on Windows (natively, without 
> using Cygwin)? 
> 
> I noticed the "vcnet" subdir with the project file "libcups2.vcproj".
> Is this up to date? Which parts of CUPS are supposed to...
> 
>   a) ...compile
>   b) ...work
> 
> on Win32 ?

Right now all we focus on is libcups.  The client commands (lp, lpr,
etc.) *should* work, but the scheduler, filters, and backends WILL
NOT compile on Windows right now.  We have an internal project
(nothing anyone can test at the moment, sorry folks!) we are working
on to provide a client-only cupsd for Windows that will provide the
failsafe and load-balancing functions on a Windows client.  It is
unlikely that we will ever be able to provide a native, fully-
functional server version of cupsd on Windows (too little OS support
for it...)

The libcups2.vcproj file *should* be up-to-date - please file a STR
if it isn't.

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