Re: Re: DAR's filename length limitation on Windows

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 00:01 +0900, Masaru Tsuchiyama wrote:
> > Of course yes, there is the Unix system calls, but also some standard C 
> > library functions (printf, ...) as well as some standard C++ library 
> > templates (list, vector, map, ...), theses should be available in 
> > Windows I guess.
> > 
> > I have never tried to compile dar with a C++ compiler under Windows, I 
> > thus I have no real idea of what is necessary to modify to complete such 
> > an hypothetic compilation, there may stay other things to adapt over 
> > what have been listed above.
> I have no real idea because I don't know the internal structure of DAR.
> 
> But I think there are two ways to do it.
> One is to make dar's own platform abstract layer.
> The other is to use a existing library, for example
> Apache Portable Runtime(APR).
> 
> The first way is to take much time.
> The second way is to solve a licence problem if the library's
> licence is not GPL or LGPL.

Libdar is GPL, so that's not a problem. But APR is a good idea. When I
worked on converting libdar to win32, I didn't know about APR. Using it
would make things a LOT easier.

> 
> Masaru
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