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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-01-19 09:37:39 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-01-19 09:37:39 +0000
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@@ -36,22 +36,25 @@ Windows vs Unix
the Windows way. The four perhaps most notable details are:
1. Different function names for close(), read(), write()
+
+ In curl, this is solved with defines and macros, so that the source looks
+ the same at all places except for the header file that defines them.
+
2. Windows requires a couple of init calls for the socket stuff
+
+ Those must be made by the application that uses libcurl, in curl that means
+ src/main.c has some code #ifdef'ed to do just that.
+
3. The file descriptors for network communication and file operations are
not easily interchangable as in unix
+
+ We avoid this by not trying any funny tricks on file descriptors.
+
4. When writing data to stdout, Windows makes end-of-lines the DOS way, thus
destroying binary data, although you do want that conversion if it is
text coming through... (sigh)
- In curl, (1) is made with defines and macros, so that the source looks the
- same at all places except for the header file that defines them.
-
- (2) must be made by the application that uses libcurl, in curl that means
- src/main.c has some code #ifdef'ed to do just that.
-
- (3) is simply avoided by not trying any funny tricks on file descriptors.
-
- (4) we set stdout to binary under windows
+ We set stdout to binary under windows
Inside the source code, I do make an effort to avoid '#ifdef WIN32'. All
conditionals that deal with features *should* instead be in the format