Feature request: please native build support to MS Windows

[kgfly]

When measuring the system performance on Windows, running inside "WSL" does not make sense, since "WSL" itself is slow.

So please add native build support on Windows.

Thanks

[akopytov]

OK, but please keep in mind this will likely stay open for a long time because:

1. Porting to Windows is not as easy as it may seem due to dependencies on C99, ConcurrencyKit and autotools;
2. Windows is nowhere near the top of my priorities;
3. Lack of external contributions.

[kgfly]

Thanks. Please keep it alive till resolved. Windows user really need it!.

[yrro]

I did a bit of hacking on this which you can see at https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench/compare/master...yrro:mingw?expand=1.

After bypassing a test in concurrencykit's build system that prevents cross-compilation, ./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --without-mysql is sufficient to get sysbench to compile, if not link.

Linking will fail until replacements for srandom, random, pread and pwrite are found. Finally, I think libluajit-5.1.a isn't being built with the correct calling convention and none of its symbols are found.

[akopytov]

@yrro that looks like a MinGW port to me, and I'm happy to merge it, if it works for you. But just to avoid confusion, MinGW is not a native Windows build, so it is technically unrelated to the original feature request in this issue.