The first modifications allowing DeforaOS to be built on Windows have been pushed in the past couple of days. Some projects can be compiled successfully with a native Windows environment already: libSystem, libApp, libParser, configure and Calendar for instance. Porting more Gtk+ applications would be interesting and should be fairly easy. This was tested with gcc, as found in the MinGW project [1].

Many more projects could be compiled with Cygwin of course [2], as it provides a complete POSIX environment. Still, it would be more interesting to be able to run the distributed framework [3] and graphical applications [4] natively on this platform as well.

[1] http://www.mingw.org/
[2] http://www.cygwin.com/
[3] http://www.defora.org/os/wiki/3427/Distributed-environment
[4] http://www.defora.org/os/wiki/3426/Graphical-environment