FUSE-NT is really two pieces of software:
- A Windows IFS driver component (ifs/), and
- A set of patches to the FUSE userspace libraries (fuse-2.8.5/)
Together, these pieces seek to enable FUSE filesystems written against the latest version of the libfuse API to run unmodified on Cygwin on Windows systems.
On Fedora 20, with the mingw64-headers and other mingw64 packages installed:
$ cd ifs/fuse/wxp
$ mingw64-env
$ make
Will build a kernel module named ntfuse.sys.
Work in progress ... this is the idea:
$ sudo yum install mingw64-gettext mingw64-win-iconv
$ cd fuse-*
# Apply fuse-NT patches:
$ quilt push -a
# Set-up MingW64 build environment:
$ mingw64-env
# Auto-reconf (we add files to lib/Makefile.am)
$ autoreconf -ifs -I/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/aclocal/
# Typical autoconf (mingw64 wrapper) and build:
$ mingw64-configure CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ddk" \
LDFLAGS="-lntoskrnl -lkernel32"
$ make
Lots of things are broken; in particular, none of the userspace stuff is remotely thread-safe yet; nothing exits cleanly or cleans up after itself; and the userspace code tends to segfault in various places. When it breaks, you get to keep all of the pieces! :-)