[Box Backup-dev] Win32 port

[Ben Summers]

On 22 Dec 2005, at 23:56, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> With the latest changes in vc2005-compile-fixes, it's now possible  
> (and actually not too difficult) to compile Box Backup on a Win32  
> machine without Cygwin, using Visual C++ Express 2005 and  
> ActiveState Perl. I did it from scratch in about 4 hours, including  
> download and installation times.
>
> Also, Box now runs properly as a service, as long as it can read  
> the config file and write to the DataDirectory specified therein.

I'll try and review all the changes you made soon. I'm still a bit  
dubious about the type changes, and the impact it might have on the  
POSIX side. I trust you've tried to compile it on a POSIX box?

Ben