[Libevent-users] libevent on windows: select() fails

[Bas Verhoeven]

Hi,

I have tried compiling libevent (svn, 1.3.99-trunk) for windows with 
MSVC 9 (Visual Studio 2008), after loads of fiddling I managed to 
compile the project with a few minor warnings, and I ended up with a 
"libevent.lib".

I linked ws2_32.lib and got a bunchload of errors while initializing 
libevent. After an hour I figured out that it might be useful to 
initialize winsock before actually using it, for some reason I expected 
libevent to do this.

Things are progressing a bit more, 'time-test' runs fine:

    V:\dev\libevent-svn\WIN32-Prj\time_test\Debug>time_test.exe
    [msg] libevent using: win32
    timeout_cb: called at 1205409820: 2
    timeout_cb: called at 1205409822: 2

So does 'signal-test':
   
    V:\dev\libevent-svn\WIN32-Prj\signal_test\Debug>signal_test.exe
    [msg] libevent using: win32
    signal_cb: got signal 2
    signal_cb: got signal 2
    signal_cb: got signal 2

But when I run 'event-test', it seems to die at select():

    V:\dev\libevent-svn\WIN32-Prj\event_test\Debug>event_test.exe
    [msg] libevent using: win32
    [debug] event_add: event: 002DFF1C, EV_READ   call 00433CE0
    [debug] win32_insert: adding event for 916
    [debug] win32_dispatch: select returned -1

Any idea why it would do that, and what I can do to fix it? I would 
really like to start using libevent on windows.

Cheers,
Bas Verhoeven