RE: [Iaxclient-devel] Compiling iaxclient with VC++ as a windows dll

[Alex E. <aep...@ya...>]

Steve,

Thanks so much for the information, it is great to get a response so
quickly.

I guess I would have to decide whether to stay on the common path or spend
some time messing with VC++. I wonder if there is enough interest in that,
or I would be doing it just for myself.

Best,
Alex

> -----Original Message-----
> From: iax...@li...
> [mailto:iax...@li...]On Behalf Of Steve
> Kann
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 7:17 PM
> To: Alex Epshteyn
> Cc: Iaxclientlist
> Subject: Re: [Iaxclient-devel] Compiling iaxclient with VC++ as a
> windows dll
>
>
>
> On Sep 7, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Alex Epshteyn wrote:
>
> > I am new to this list and trying to get up to speed.
> >
> > It appears that the project uses gcc (MinGV and Cygwin) to build the
> > library, compiling library's wrapper wiax.dll (in diax project) is
> > also done
> > with gcc.
> > I have seen a few questions about compiling with VC++, but not too many
> > answers, and it is not obvious what has changed since these posts.
> >
> > Are the Microsoft VC++ project files out of date?
>
> Yes.
>
> >  I would like to build a
> > dll using VC++, and   wonder if that would be a relatively major
> > effort?
>
> Probably not.
>
> > Can
> > the library be compiled with VC++ without any patches?
>
> No; there's a couple of gcc-specific features that are used in the
> library.  I went through and cleaned most of these up, and AFAIK the
> only issue left is that we use a zero-length array as the last member
> of a structure; in gcc, this refers to the memory _after_ the end of
> the structure, and was a neat hack that Mark did in libiax2.
>
> Unfortunately, nobody has come up with a similar construction that _is_
> portable to compilers which don't support this (simple) extension.
>
> A proper fix for this would be something which is equally efficient,
> and portable, and would be accepted back into digium's libiax2
> repository.
>
> I don't use VC++ at all -- I don't really use Windows that much, but
> when I do, I use gcc there.   Since my use of iaxclient is for a
> portable project, it's just a lot easier to maintain the single
> Makefile, and use the same toolchain on every platform.
>
>
> -SteveK
>
>
>
>
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