Documentation:

The URL:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library 

has a good Unix Application Migration Guide as well as Win32 API. 

				MINGW32
Problems:

client.c:

The select() function does not work on stdio files, so xpaset cannot add
stdio to select(). This means that "cat foo.fits | xpaset ds9" is not
implemented. This is a client side problem and would not affect ds9 running
as an xpa server.

xpaio.c and others:

Win32 does not support most Unix signal handling, and in particular, the
SIGALRM signal. This means that XPA will hang indefinitely on a system
call, i.e., there is no timeout support corresponding to XPA_LONG_TIMEOUT
and XPA_SHORT_TIMEOUT. This affects both clients and servers.

timedconn.c:

Again, lack of support for SIGALRM means alrmconnect() is not implemented.
For some reason, noblkconect() also did not work properly, so I had to
use theregular connect() in client.c and hang until further notice. This
is a client side problem and would not affect ds9 as an xpa server.

launch.c:

Without fork(), its not obvious how to make the code wait for the
child to start. In the end, I used simply called win32 spawnvp(), put
a short sleep into the parent, and hoped for the best.

find.c:

Couldn't find the access mode bits (S_IRUSR, S_IWUSR, S_IXUSR) in win32,
so access checking in find() is not supported.

Code Changes:

xpa.c, client.c (sockets)

Ironically, wsock64 has an FD_SETSIZE of 64 and I had to redefine this to
8192 to make XPA sockets work.

For wsock32 sockets, we must initialize wsock32 using:

     WSADATA wsaData;
     ...
     if( WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,0), &wsaData) ) != 0 ) {handle error};

and clean up at the time of exit:

    WSACleanup();

The close(sock) call is replaced by closesocket(sock).

The call:

    fcntl(sock, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);

is not needed or implemented (since sockets do not survive across exec) and
must be commented out.

Calls to:

    flags = fcntl(client->datafd, F_GETFL);
    fcntl(client->datafd, F_SETFL, flags|NONBIO);

get changed to:

    int flags=1;
    ioctlsocket(socket, FIONBIO, (u_long FAR *)&flags);