Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/05/30/16:15:14
Hello.
Chris Lee wrote:
>
> Richard Dawe wrote:
> > The addition of a networking library to DJGPP would probably add a lot
> > of code to libc. If most people don't use networking, is it worth it?
[snip]
> And just how would including/intergrating a networking library like
> yours or Watt32 into DJGPP add any code whatsoever to libc?
OK, point taken it would actually be in libsocket.a (libsocke.a on DOS),
but if it's part of DJGPP, then it would increase the size of the djdev
ZIP file, unnecessarily for most people IMHO.
> All that would really happening is making sure that the DJGPP version
> of Watt32 and other various BSD-compat networking libs for DJGPP have
> been properly configured to make sure they work with DJGPP out of the
> box so to speak when compiling programs that call/look for things like
> netbd.h, sockets.h, in.h and types.h.
Well, that's the plan with libsocket at the moment. If this doesn't
happen, please tell me what I need to do to get it to happen. Hopefully
the latest release will be better in many ways. I dumped man pages and
switched to info docs, eliminating most of the hassle with long vs. short
filenames. I'm also working on the integration aspect and making it easier
for users and their program users to configure.
Watt-32 built pretty simply from sources last time I tried. I don't know
about the binary release, though.
Perhaps part of the problem is that some of the header files already exist
in DJGPP - netinet/in.h is one case. Also, some defines may need to be
added to header files - e.g. S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK. I think the problem is
then how to add basic networking functionality to DJGPP, to aid
integration of network libs, without misleading configure scripts, etc.
into thinking that vanilla DJGPP has networking facilities. I mean, a
configure script may assume lots of things if S_ISSOCK is defined.
I have to admit I thought you meant actual code integration into DJGPP,
rather than making DJGPP + networking lib work together easily. The latter
is something I've thought about a lot.
Bye,
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Richard Dawe
richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/
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