Re: [libmicrohttpd] Remove PlibC from autotools files

[Evgeny Grin]

07.08.2013, 17:13, "Michael Cronenworth" <address@hidden>:
> On 08/07/2013 04:00 AM, Evgeny Grin wrote:
>
>>  Correct, this is a critical point. Windows' "select" works only with 
>> sockets.
>
> Evgeny,
>
> I'll copy/paste my patch notes to this list. I realize select only works on
> sockets. I have replaced all of the code PlibC was required for with native
> Windows calls. There should not be any loss of functionality.
>
> libmicrohttpd-mingw-example.patch
> Uses the Windows rand() functions in the post_example.
>
> libmicrohttpd-mingw-liberty.patch
> Removes the requirement of liberty. No longer shipped by newer gcc.
>
> libmicrohttpd-mingw-plibc-01.patch
> Part 1 of 2 - Remove PlibC from autotools files.
>
> libmicrohttpd-mingw-plibc-02.patch
> Part 2 of 2 - Remove and replace PlibC macros with native function calls.
>
> libmicrohttpd-mingw-testcurl.patch
> The inet_pton() call is only supported in Vista and above. Add define to 
> declare
> we are compiling for Vista.
>
> Build environment note: I am using MinGW-w64 and not mingw.org, which is more
> advanced and now preferred over the mingw.org environment. The MinGW-w64
> checkout that I built libmicrohttpd against is r5969 dated 2013-07-21.

Again, nothing is in attach.
MinGW-w64 is more advanced for sure, but till now MinGW is de-facto standard. I 
think that MinGW-w64 support is preferred, but MinGW support is required.
Usually it's easy to extend support from MinGW-w64 -nly to MinGW(-w64).

Evgeny