RE: compilation error

Christopher,
 
I agree with the majority of what Bob wrote.  As Bob stated, all of our
current freeware security libraries (S/MIME Freeware Library, Certificate
Management Library, Access Control Library) use the Enhanced SNACC ASN.1 C++
Library (not the C Library).  We do not support the use of the current
freeware security libraries with the Enhanced SNACC ASN.1 C Library. 
 
If you need ASN.1 encoding/decoding capabilities separate from the freeware
security libraries, then we strongly recommend that you use the Enhanced
SNACC ASN.1 C++ Library (rather than the C Library) if that is possible in
your environment.  
 
However, Getronics continues to support both the Enhanced SNACC ASN.1 C++
and C Libraries.  We plan to create a test driver to separately test the
Enhanced SNACC ASN.1 C Library (since it is not otherwise tested with our
freeware security libraries).  
 
=========================================== 
John Pawling, [email protected] 
Getronics Government Solutions, LLC 
=========================================== 

-----Original Message-----
From: Colestock, Robert [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 2:42 PM
To: 'Christopher Brown'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: compilation error



Christopher: 

Sorry, you are on your own with the SNACC "C" library, we no longer support
it.  You must read the manual on its complex use of buffers (3 or 4 types,
each with their own performance issues).  All of these issues were removed
with our modified C++ version.  All you need to do is define (for #define)
the appropriate buffer type as described in the manual.  For our older "C"
run-time, I believe only 2 types are supported (see the readme).  All of the
other definitions are left intact in case any users need to use these
features, but it may be necessary to tweak the library.

>From the ./SNACC/c-lib/readme 

... 
The 3 libararies are: 
        libasn1cebuf.a - uses the ExpBufs 
        libasn1cmbuf.a - uses the MinBufs 
        libasn1csbuf.a - uses the SBufs 
... 

Our current release does not even distribute nor build the "C" libs; the
older version used to build the CEbuflib and ebuf_lib ONLY.  I would guess
you need these compiler settings defined:

USE_NIBBLE_MEMORY=0,USE_EXP_BUF 

(from our SNACC workspace settings for Cebuflib project). 

Bob Colestock 
VDA 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Christopher Brown [ mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> ] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:15 PM 
To: [email protected] 
Subject: compilation error 



Hi, 

I'm trying to compile a simple program that uses the SFL in VS 6.0 ... I 
get the following error: 

/../SNACC/c-lib/inc/asn-config.h(225) : fatal error C1189: #error :  "don't 
know what buffer type to use!" 

What am I doing wrong? 

BTW, I'm using SFL version 1.8, thanx