On Sat, 2017-10-14 at 15:38 +0000, Stephen Gray wrote: > So I got all excited to have CZMQ building on Windows; then I tried > the example https://github.com/zeromq/czmq/blob/master/examples/secur > ity/ironhouse2.c and was met with blank silence, no "Ironhouse test > OK", just silence..... > > So trying to work out the problem I read http://czmq.zeromq.org/czmq4 > -0:zactor which says; "A CZMQ actor is implemented as a thread plus > a PAIR-PAIR pipe." > > Now, from memory I recall that inter-process communication doesn't > work on Windows, so consequently zactor won't work properly with its > PAIR-PAIR pipe. Am I right? > > To use CZMQ for my project it is vital to have CZMQ fully operational > on Windows and Linux, otherwise I will have to drop the idea of CZMQ > and build my own higher level abstractions; which would be a real > shame and lots of work. > > Is there any possibility of introducing alternative transport > mechanism options into zactor (and anywhere else necessary in CZMQ). > E.g. TCP over the local loopback connection instead of PAIR-PAIR. It > might offer Windows users a plausible workaround? > > I'm willing to help but don't have a full knowledge or expertise with > CZMQ; in fact I'm just a user who has lost another Saturday afternoon > to technical challenges.
Hi, inproc:// works just fine on Windows. You can see the output from the CI test runs on Appveyor: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zeromq/czmq/build/job/0yw4ap39hr5qva2u Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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