Niall's Weblog

Just committed the bits for Unworkable to build under Windows, using Cygwin. The code changes were pretty minimal – specifically, Cygwin lacks getaddrinfo() – however this was a relatively simple matter of bundling the KAME implementation (which is BSD licensed) in the source tree and building and linking with that if it wasn’t [...]

I wrote the other day about porting software to Linux. I talked about some of the differences between the platforms in terms of the implementation of some well-known C library functions, and hinted at some other incompatibilities. Well, now I’m going to write about some of the other issues I encountered.

There are a [...]

I have been making very good progress with my BitTorrent implementation recently. However, I have felt the need to make it compile out of the box under systems other than OpenBSD. The first system I have ported to is Linux, specifically Ubuntu 7.10. In doing the port, I found some interesting differences [...]