Native nix on windows. Major blockers?

[tgunnoe]

There’s a thread on this:

Nix on Windows?

Is anyone trying to port nix and nixpkgs to output native Windows PE executables? I would like to avoid cross-compilation and cygwin if possible to get something as close as native as possible. I talked a bit with @edolstra and he said the following things: it is (was) possible to build non-cygwin binaries, e.g. * A Hello World GUI application compiled with VC++. · NixOS/nixpkgs@08d3840 · GitHub we used to have Visual C++ in Nixpkgs probably nowadays we would want to use WSL instead of Cygw…

IIRC symlinks and length of filenames are barriers