Kalin Nakov wrote:
Hi,
I saw that libevent has some .dsp and .dsw files, but the sources are
completely unbuildable. First HAVE_CONFIG is not defined in the project,
also some WIN32 defines are re-defined in the code, some types are
undefined
and have to be manually defined, functions are used which are
unavailable in
windows (gettimeofday, etc). Are there any document with steps on how to
build libevent on windows, or the windows port is unsupported? If it is
unsupported, I could make a contribution and make it buildable on
windows if
you want since I intend to use it.
Unfortunately for the Windows developers, VC isn't the supported Win32
build platform for libevent, which to some extent is why the build is in
the shape it's in.
There's actually a general problem here, which is simply that the UNIX
bods don't have a Win32 build environment easily available to them and
the Win32 bods don't have a UNIX build environment easily available to them.
(Easily available in both the sense of physical availability and the
knowledge required to operate the build effectively).
My view in this is that the Win32 and UNIX builds should be entirely
independent. There should be three source directories, one for common
code, one for UNIX specific code, one for Windows specific code. There
should be two separate builds, one for UNIX (up to the UNIX bods how
best to do that) and one for Windows (which should be VC - preferably
version 6, since not everyone has or wants the later versions, but this
is a difficult request, since it's not strictly possible to now obtain
older versions of VC).
I've some intention to sort out the build along these lines, but I've
been distracted by IOCP work.
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