I thought the same when we ported iceoryx to Mac OS and Windows. Mac OS is pretty straightforward, except it does not support unnamed semaphores. But Windows is an entirely different story. For once, it supports only streaming unix domain sockets, and it didn't support the transfer of FDs when we ported iceoryx to Windows back then - maybe it supports it now. Also, when you want to perform some access control with access rights, you have to face sid— and ace-strings - oh they are fun. And, of course, there are all the nasty details; for instance, Windows defines macros that lead to compilation failures since they collide with internal naming. Take a look at this here, maybe it makes your efforts less painless: https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx/blob/master/iceor...

You could reuse the iceoryx platform layer that enables iceoryx to run on every platform from qnx, linux, freertos, mac, windows. Maybe it can help you as well: https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx/blob/master/doc/w...