Hi!
While trying to port libev to win32, I ran into a number of issues with
libevent proper (which of course still is the major part of the sources).
Specifically:
- evdns.c, httpc and other files include include files such as unistd.h,
which are not available under windows. consequently, they do not even
compile on win32 (tested with the visual c compiler).
- is WIN32-Code/win32.c really the production-ready win32 backend?
I can hardly believe this, as its basically not doing anything that
the select backend doesn't do better and faster (for example, the win32
backend does a linear search over all(!) registered event watchers
on each event_add/event_del/select call).
additionally, signals are not being handled correctly (race conditions)
on win32, but thats likely not a big deal on that platform.
Looking around with google it seems that indeed, evdns et. al does not
build on windows (except when using e.g. cygwin, but thats trivial).
So I wonder if libevent as a whole is supported under windows at all in
current versions?
(and yes, this is with libevent-1.3e proper, not anything I wrote, to
avoid the off-topic argument again).
PS: the good news is, the libev core is now fully working on cygwin
and native win32 (and the EV module, too, except the DNS part, which
I didn't want to port to win32).
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