Re: [libmicrohttpd] Binding to a specifc address on Windows

[Daniel Kraft]

Hi!

On 11.03.19 22:46, LRN wrote:
>> 05.03.2019, 17:21, "Daniel Kraft" wrote:
>>>
>>> However, the option expects the binding address as "struct sockaddr",
>>> which as far as I can tell is POSIX and not standard C.
> 
> It's not. Look in /mingw/include/psdk_inc/_ip_types.h (which is included by
> winsock2.h), it's there. And many socket API functions do take struct 
> sockaddr.

Ah ok, very cool!  Then I assume there's no issue at all for me.

> The thing you *should* look out for is sockaddr_un, which is used by AF_UNIX
> sockets, which *aren't* supported on Windows.
> 
> struct sockaddr is just the most abstract of the sockaddr types, with just one
> meaningful field (family). The rest is just an array of bytes. Usually you 
> cast
> it to a particular type (based on the value of the family field), such as
> struct sockaddr_in or struct sockaddr_in6.

Ok.  I think I'm fine with just struct sockaddr for my usecase, so that
there is no need for sockaddr_un or others like that.

> On 11.03.2019 23:17, Evgeny Grin wrote:
>> Please clarify, whether do you want to use MHD on Windows natively or with 
>> MSys
>> POSIX transformation layer?
>> It is two different tasks.
> Most likely the former. MSYS2 developers do make some effort to make it clear
> that MSYS shell is for MSYS developers.

Yes, building native Windows binaries is what we need in the end.

Thanks to you both!

Yours,
Daniel

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