Re: [libmicrohttpd] Real Windows support?

[Evgeny Grin]

14.10.2013, 11:08, "LRN" <address@hidden>:
> On 14.10.2013 05:48, Luke-Jr wrote:
>>  - Even then, I could never get a working Win64 build.
I have some microhttpd builds for win32 x64. Not tried with latest MinGW(-w64).

> There have been some patches offered to plibc that would fix this.
> However, some things plibc does (like storing handles in 'int') don't
> work on x86_64, so it is still unclear what the right thing to do would
> be, and whether it's really feasible to do it, and whether that would
> break source-level compatibility with all plibc-using programs or not.
> Few people really need x86_64, so this issue never got any development.
Windows handles actually limited to 32-bit values, so no problem with it.

>>  - It is calling setlocale(LC_ALL, ".OCP"), which screws up my program by
>>  causing sprintf (uses in other protocols my software needs to support!) to 
>> use
>>  commas for the decimal point instead of periods on non-English systems (and
>>  who knows what other oddities).
> I am not the one who added this, so i don't know what the reasoning
> behind it was.
Good question: do we really need it? 


Best Wishes,
Evgeny