Re: [libmicrohttpd] Patches for Windows version of libmicrohttpd

[Gerrit Telkamp]

> > Furthermore, an older version of plibc.h was in the include directory.
> > This gives some problems if you are using a newer version of the PlibC
> > library. So I propose to exclude src/include/plibc.h from the SVN
> The problem is that UNIX users won't have PlibC installed on their system, but
> we need the header to
>
> #define SHUTDOWN shutdown
>
> and the like (otherwise the code won't compile).  That's why it is shipped
> with MHD right now, and while I think we should keep it up-to-date.  Nils
> should worry about backwards-compatibility.  Maybe one way to do this would be
> to split it into a plibc_unix.h and a plibc_w32.h -- and then we might only
> ship plibc_unix.h and avoid most compatibility issues in the future.
>
> Nils, what do you think of this idea?
>
> In any case, I don't think removing plibc.h is an option.
Ok, but alternatively the header could be imported using #ifdef in daemon.c:

#ifdef WINDOWS
#include <plibc.h>
#endif

?
> Well, your change simply takes it out on W32 always; I think we should do at
> least something like
> #ifdef IPV6_V6ONLY
> ...
> #endif
> (instead of using "0").
Yes, this would be better.

Best regards

Gerrit.