[Dxspider-support] M$ Window support

[Luc Goeman - ON1GL]

THANKS Dirk !

  just upgraded the test machine, the spawn-problem is gone here 😄

I'm not doing any badip things on pc's, that's something that is handled 
by the router/firewall in the network (mikrotik/routerboard) sorry cant 
help you with that 🙁

more testing this evening

73

Luc

On 15/02/2023 8:17, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
> I believe that I have fixed most of the problems reported on the 
> 'mojo' branch whilst running on Windows. Those users that are on this 
> platform should upgrade. Linux/BSD/unix users don't need to update.
>
> There remains one intractable problem on Windows which is present on 
> all perl distributions (apart, possibly, from ActiveState) which is 
> the inability of perl programs to spawn other processes. So, until 
> some solution is found, 'mojo' DXSpider instances running on Windows 
> are limited to running all commands, that on Linux/BSD/unix start 
> subprocesses, will run 'inline' in the same way as the 'master' branch 
> does on all platforms.
>
> I'm given to understand that badip does not work (properly?) on 
> Windows. If someone can give me more information about this I would be 
> grateful. If someone is running a node using ActiveState perl on 
> Windows, please get in touch so I can coordinate some testing.
>
> 73 Dirk G1TLH
>
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