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| author | Yang Tse <yangsita@gmail.com> | 2011-08-05 16:32:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Yang Tse <yangsita@gmail.com> | 2011-08-05 16:32:20 +0200 |
| commit | 817b863466fd9812cb7a2305b66a39f2c0c24dbc (patch) | |
| tree | ff78e6af6d4b5c452c11952e01c16d3040bac24f | |
| parent | f6272dd9b8ae8d188068aeb0df2af496a964e407 (diff) | |
BSD-style lwIP TCP/IP stack support - docs/INSTALL blurb
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/INSTALL | 25 |
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 569e0fc70..b2ac75689 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ This release includes the following changes: o Added CURLOPT_GSSAPI_DELEGATION o Added NTLM_SSO support o Display notes from setup file in testcurl.pl + o BSD-style lwIP TCP/IP stack support on Windows o This release includes the following bugfixes: diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index 17550dc60..7e2ce9a62 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -467,6 +467,31 @@ Win32 in the vc6libcurl.dsw/vc6libcurl.dsp Visual C++ 6 IDE project. + Using BSD-style lwIP instead of Winsock TCP/IP stack in Win32 builds + -------------------------------------------------------------------- + + In order to compile libcurl and curl using BSD-style lwIP TCP/IP stack + it is necessary to make definition of preprocessor symbol USE_LWIPSOCK + visible to libcurl and curl compilation processes. To set this definition + you have the following alternatives: + + - Modify lib/config-win32.h and src/config-win32.h + - Modify lib/Makefile.vc6 + - Add definition to Project/Settings/C/C++/General/Preprocessor Definitions + in the vc6libcurl.dsw/vc6libcurl.dsp Visual C++ 6 IDE project. + + Once that libcurl has been built with BSD-style lwIP TCP/IP stack support, + in order to use it with your program it is mandatory that your program + includes lwIP header file <lwip/opt.h> (or another lwIP header that includes + this) before including any libcurl header. Your program does not need the + USE_LWIPSOCK preprocessor definition which is for libcurl internals only. + + Compilation has been verified with lwIP 1.4.0 and contrib-1.4.0 from: + + http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lwip/lwip-1.4.0.zip + http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lwip/contrib-1.4.0.zip + + Important static libcurl usage note ----------------------------------- |