On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 8:12 PM Martin Storsjö <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
>
> > Hi Alexandre,
> >
> > Where can I learn more about what native windows TLS means? We have
> > been been building the msys2 version of libcurl using native windows
> > schannel TLS backend for years, how is this different from windows
> > native TLS?
>
> TLS in this case means Thread Local Storage (where GCC so far has used a
> mechanism called "emulated TLS", different from the "native TLS" that MSVC
> and clang use, that relies on platform specific mechanisms provided by
> windows, for handling thread local variables), not Transport Layer
> Security.

Haha ok, thanks for cleaning that up! I got confused because in the
context of libcurl, we talk about building against openssl, or native
windows tls (schannel).

Sorry for derailing the thread.


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