[Libevent-users] Patch for trunk to build on mingw, plus a couple of questions.

[freeman]

Many thanks for your better job.

On 11/21/06, Nick Mathewson <nickm at freehaven.net> wrote:
>
> Hi, all.
>
> So, neither trunk nor 1.2 builds on mingw.  This is pretty bad, since
> mingw is now the Tor project's official compiler.
>
> I've got a patch that fixes all of the build errors in the main source
> files here:
>    http://freehaven.net/~nickm/mingw-libevent-3.diff
>
> This patch shouldn't break anything that worked before, so applying it
> would probably be a good idea.
>
> There are still a few problems, though:
>
> 1) Windows has no getaddrinfo or getnameinfo.  This keeps http.c from
>   building.  I've faked getaddrinfo somewhat, but there still needs to
>   be an implementation of name_from_addr.  Probably, it would make
>   sense to have http.c use evdns.c rather than calling the platform
>   resolver and blocking.
>
> 2) The types u_int8_t, u_int16_t, and so on are defined in config.h
>    when they aren't present on the platform.  This would be fine,
>    except for the fact that they're used in event.h, and config.h
>    isn't installed.  As a user of libevent, I need to detect these
>    types myself and typedef them when they don't exist.
>
> 3) http.c uses strlcpy, so libevent adds a strlcpy implementation when
>    the platform doesn't have one.  This is fine, except for the fact
>    that the strlcpy implementation is actually exported by libevent:
>    later, when I use autoconf to detect whether strlcpy is available,
>    I need to make sure to do so before I search for libevent, so that
>    I don't erroneously pick up libevent's strlcpy implementation.
>
> --
> Nick Mathewson
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Alex
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