Status of Win32 support for Globus Toolkit

[Ivan R. Judson]

Hey Bob,

I'll check stuff out. I'm looking at what globus-makefile-header is doing to
see if we can substitute something else. It's part of GPT which I really
don't want to deal with. Porting that to every platform is much more than I
think we need.

I'll look at it today; I'm at home on vacation, so if I don't get to it
until tomorrow or Wednesday, don't be surprised :-)

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R Gaffaney (via ANL) [mailto:gaffaney at mcs.anl.gov] 
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 10:29 AM
> To: judson at mcs.anl.gov
> Cc: Lee Liming; childers at mcs.anl.gov; Robert Olson
> Subject: Fw: Status of Win32 support for Globus Toolkit
> 
> 
> Hi Ivan,
> 
> Can you point me to info on this globus-makefile-header 
> requirement - I confess ignorance on this issue.
> 
> Also, the new GSI is threaded by default, and in discussions 
> with Sam last week I discovered that both threaded and 
> non-threaded versions of the GSI and Callout libraries are 
> needed. I created the additional modules and posted a new 
> distribution. Last minute additions by Laura Perlman and Sam 
> Meder to gsi\sysconfig are also captured for this distribution.
> 
>     
> http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gaffaney/WinGlobusDistribution(11
> 2103).zip
> 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lee Liming" <liming at mcs.anl.gov>
> To: "Robert C. Gaffaney" <gaffaney at mcs.anl.gov>
> Cc: "Lisa Childers" <childers at mcs.anl.gov>
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 9:57 AM
> Subject: FW: Status of Win32 support for Globus Toolkit
> 
> 
> Looks like a new requirement has been discovered!  I didn't 
> know they needed GPT support as well.
> 
>         -- Lee
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan R. Judson [mailto:judson at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 9:18 AM
> To: 'Lee Liming'; 'Bob Olson'; 'Mike Papka'
> Cc: 'Ian T. Foster'; 'Steve Tuecke'
> Subject: RE: Status of Win32 support for Globus Toolkit
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I've grabbed this and unwrapped it. Unfortunately my first 
> task was to try to build pyGlobus against it to test our 
> software, but that requires globus-makefile-header (which is 
> a GPT perl script). I'm not sure the best way around that, 
> but that's blocking me doing much more than very basic (yep, 
> the binaries work) testing.
> 
> --Ivan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lee Liming [mailto:liming at mcs.anl.gov]
> > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 4:37 PM
> > To: Bob Olson; Mike Papka; Ivan R. Judson
> > Cc: Ian T. Foster; Steve Tuecke
> > Subject: RE: Status of Win32 support for Globus Toolkit
> >
> >
> > Bob, Mike, Ivan:
> >
> > Bob Gaffaney has prepared our first Win32 distribution for Globus 
> > Toolkit 2.4.  The Zip file with code and the release notes are 
> > available at the following URLs.
> >
> >
> > http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gaffaney/WinGlobusDistribution(11
> > 1603).zip
> >
> >     http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gaffaney/ReleaseNotes.txt
> >
> > I hope you'll have a chance to try this out soon, and let us (Bob
> > especially) know how it works for you.
> >
> > As Lisa mentioned to you earlier, I think, this code will 
> first appear 
> > "officially" in the Globus Toolkit 3.2 release, and the 
> alpha release 
> > is expected this month.  The alpha release should include 
> this code.  
> > We do expect changes between this code and the 3.2 final 
> release due 
> > to ongoing component development, particlarly in the I/O area.
> >
> >          -- Lee
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lee Liming [mailto:liming at mcs.anl.gov]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:51 PM
> > To: Bob Olson; Mike Papka
> > Cc: Rick Stevens; Ian T. Foster; Steve Tuecke
> > Subject: Status of Win32 support for Globus Toolkit
> >
> >
> > Mike, Bob:
> >
> > We have found someone to help us get Win32 support in GT back in 
> > shape.  The following statement of work is part of a 
> contract that's 
> > currently with Jim Feigl and Argonne's contract mgmt 
> office.  We are 
> > attempting a sole source justification to get someone that 
> we know to 
> > do the work, and I hope this goes through without complications.
> >
> > I hope that we can get this started very soon.  When we have 
> > confirmation of the contract awardee, I'll give you the 
> contact info.  
> > I believe that the pieces that you need are included in the 
> > deliverables for the first three months of the contract.  
> (See list of 
> > deliverables below.)  We've also written DLL support into the 
> > six-month deliverables.  You'll probably want to work some with the 
> > person doing this to make sure that we're doing things the way you 
> > need them done.
> >
> >            -- Lee
> >
> >
> >
> > ****************************************************************
> > Statement of Work
> >
> > The contractor will assist Argonne National 
> Laboratory-Mathematics and 
> > Computer Science Division's Distributed Systems Laboratory in the 
> > following areas:
> >
> > 1) Clarifying and documenting the development environment, tools,
> >    and processes used to support the Globus Toolkit on 
> Win32 platform.
> >
> > 2) Training DSL software developers in building, testing, and 
> > packaging
> >    the Globus Toolkit for distribution on the Win32 platform.
> >
> > 3) Porting the recently-rewritten Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)
> >    implementation (a component of the Globus Toolkit) to the Win32
> >    platform.
> >
> > 4) Porting the new Globus eXtensible I/O (XIO) library to Win32.
> >
> > 5) Porting the Globus Toolkit's GridFTP libraries, clients, and
> >    services to Win32.
> >
> >
> > Specific Deliverables
> >
> > All deliverables must be completed within the indicated timeframe 
> > unless noted otherwise.
> >
> > Deliverables due in 3 months:
> >
> > --Written documentation (in *simple* form) describing the Globus 
> > Toolkit Win32 development environment that enables developers to 
> > reproduce the environment on a new system, including all software 
> > tools, configuration settings, and build-specific data.  This 
> > development environment must utilize Globus Toolkit source 
> code from 
> > existing CVS repositories as the starting point for software builds.
> >
> > --Modified GSI code in the Globus Toolkit CVS archives that 
> includes 
> > support for Win32 as well as currently-supported platforms. 
> (Note that 
> > GSI includes both libraries and utility tools such as 
> > grid-proxy-init.)
> >
> > --A new Globus Toolkit distribution (with minimal 
> packaging) for Win32 
> > that includes at a minimum the Globus "Common" libraries, GSI 
> > libraries and tools, Globus I/O libraries, and GRAM client 
> libraries).  
> > (Note that Globus "Common", Globus I/O, and GRAM client 
> libraries have 
> > already been ported and tested in previous work.)
> >
> > Deliverables due in 6 months:
> >
> > --An updated version of the first deliverable ("written
> > documentation") listed above, reflecting any changes to the 
> > development environment that have been made. (If no changes 
> have been 
> > made, the first copy of the documentation may be
> > resubmitted.)
> >
> > --Training for 2+ DSL staff members (DSL has the responsibility to 
> > identify these individuals) in building, testing, and packaging the 
> > Globus Toolkit for distribution on the Win32 platform
> >
> > --(optional) Training for all DSL software developers on 
> how to write 
> > code on Unix that is easily portable to Windows. (This is not 
> > required, but may be useful to the contractor in minimizing 
> new work 
> > due to other concurrent development efforts.)
> >
> > --Modified Globus Toolkit build procedure on Win32 that 
> produces Win32 
> > DLLs (Dynamically-linked libraries) (*)
> >
> > --Modified Globus XIO code in the Globus Toolkit CVS archives that 
> > includes support for Win32 as well as currently-supported platforms 
> > (**)
> >
> > --Modified version of new Globus I/O code based on Globus 
> XIO in the 
> > Globus Toolkit CVS archives that includes support for Win32 
> as well as 
> > currently-supported platforms (**)
> >
> > --Modified GridFTP code in the Globus Toolkit CVS archives that 
> > includes support for Win32 as well as currently-supported 
> platforms. 
> > (Note that GridFTP includes libraries, utility tools such as 
> > globus-url-copy, and a new GridFTP server based on Globus XIO.) 
> > (*)(**)
> >
> > --A new Globus Toolkit distribution for Win32 that includes Globus 
> > "Common" libraries, GSI libraries and tools, Globus XIO 
> libraries, new 
> > Globus I/O library (described above), GRAM client 
> libraries, GridFTP 
> > libraries, tools, and server.
> > NOTE: If any of these items are not completed by the end of the 
> > contract period, they need not be included in this distribution.
> >
> > Items designated above by "(*)" are eligible for 
> renegotiation during 
> > the contract period. If both contractor and Argonne National 
> > Laboratory are in agreement, these deliverables may be removed from 
> > this contract or the contract period (and funding) may be 
> extended to 
> > allow more time to fulfill them.
> >
> > Items designated above by "(**)" depend on work to be done 
> by Argonne 
> > National Laboratory employees.  If Argonne National Laboratory does 
> > not deliver the required dependencies, these deliverables may be 
> > removed from this contract.
> >
> >
> > Reporting
> >
> > The contractor will meet with DSL management at least once 
> each month 
> > to review progress and current issues and to coordinate concurrent 
> > development activities.  These review meetings will be held 
> twice each 
> > month during the first two months of the contract.
> >
> > Additional written reporting requirements are described in the 
> > "Specific Deliverables" section.
> >
>