Gentoo Linux on win32

Gentoo/win32 Status Report

known working packages: semi-official List
Todo:

test new portage merge/unmerge functionality
create fixed ebuilds for "system" packages
create ebuilds for packages that are known to build in cygwin
show the debian guys how a proper port is done ;-)

(There is a debian-win32 effort going on since 2001 ... Their progress has almost frozen in 2001. This is a chance to demonstrate the superiority of Gentoo :-) )

Things that work:

emerge fetch functionality (100%)
emerge sync functionality (100%)
emerge merge functionality (95%)(needs testing)

Packages that work without modification:

sys-devel/libtool
sys-devel/patch
sys-apps/texinfo
groff
less
dialog
mirrorselect
ufed
cronbase
yacc
flex
autoconf
automake
cpio
nano (patched ebuild)
gzip (patched ebuild)
distcc
wget
miscfiles
man-pages
gcc (bootstrap completed)(standalone build completed)
gentoolkit
help2man
addpatches

Things that don't work:

emerge unmerge (untested)
most ebuilds won't compile directly
errors produce a messagewindow instead of printing to the console (unfixable?)
Starting/Stoping deamons depends on runscript which doesn't work yet

Packages that don't work:

sys-devel/gettext (uses -ldl somewhere, is integrated in cygwin *sigh*)
python
m4
db-1.85
ncurses (manual compile works)
bison (strangebug)
perl (ebuild has linux-specific conventions)
freetype
xfree
make
sed (patched)(installs but disappears??)
emacs (?)
gcc-config (glibc-dependant?)
bash (endless loop in configure)
diffutils
expat
debianutils
cracklib
slocate
pkgconfig
grep
net-tools (Linux-specific)
sh-utils (header files not found)
gcc (doesn't finish compile)
jpeg
tcl
textutils
findutils
xosview (has not been ported)

Since many packages depend on glibc this will require some effort. There seem to be some proof-of-concept ports of glibc, but nothing stable or halfway complete. Cygwin has some of the needed functions, but not with the desired parameters / header files /... If you find a way to modify an ebuild so that it succesfully compiles, please send me your modifications.
Things that almost work:

during merge dobin,doexe and strip throw non-critical errors
during merge: sometimes extra whitespace gets printed
unknown references to einfo and eend - anybody? Where are they defined?

Right now Gentoo/win32 is quite useless, but as soon as a "cygwin" platform definition is created most ebuilds can be adapted.I consider it late alpha at this stage.

As soon as all packages in "system" and all dependencies of "xfree" compile I will raise this to Beta status.

As soon as the Gentoo Gurus accept our new platform definition in the main portage tree I will use the normal Gentoo release numbers. (so this would be 1.4rc4)