[Mldonkey-bugs] [ 100600 ] win32 compilation

[nobody]

Support Request #100600, was updated on 2002-Mar-16 12:54
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Category: None
Status: Open
Priority: 1
Summary: win32 compilation

By: GoldFFFF
Date: 2002-Mar-31 10:36

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mldonkey,

I was please to see that your marvellous proggie compiled 
with cygwin.  For some people it is sometimes easier to use 
cygwin to get some unix power in a windows setup.  So now 
that we indeed see that mldonkey could use some finetuning 
for cygwin is this bug still a priority 1 bug.  My first 
test showed indeed some strange bugs and numerous core 
dumps.

GoldFFFF
 

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By: Nickname
Date: 2002-Mar-29 00:37

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Alright, I just built the whole thing and took it for a 
test drive. As originally predicted, Mldonkey is definately 
not a replacement for the windows eDonkey client; it will 
bring your system down unless you set the maximum number of 
connections incredibly low. Also, searching for files 
appears to spawn more mldonkey instances, most of which do 
not exit until the server is shut down. There also appear 
to be problems with it losing the files in the temp 
directory.
These problems may eventually be resolved by future builds 
of the cygwin layer, the sockets issues could probably be 
at least helped by using windows sockets instead of 
cygwin's implementation of BSD sockets. Of course this 
would require changes to the non-gnu parts of the program 
which is probably not worth it anyways.
If you're unhappy with the performance of the official 
windows client, try a different version, many people have 
success with 56, 58 works decently for me.
I'm not going to post the build. If you want to try it for 
yourself, download cygwin at www.cygwin.com, then just 
follow the porting instructions on the homepage (but make 
sure to run make install after make world opt opt.opt on 
ocaml, and its tar xzf ocaml-3.04.tar.gz, jxf isn't going 
to do it. Also, you need to run make depend before trying 
make open_mldonkey)

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