Re: [MiNT] Compiling curl for fireTOS under Freemint with GCC

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

lwip is for the inbuilt boot loader to download the FireTOS, not to be
used by FreeMiNT kernel.

Alan.

On 04/14/11 20:52, m0n0 wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> this was my first try to compile libcurl for fireTOS. There are 2 BSD
> socket interfaces within the tos_drivers.lzh
> one is within drivers/lwip/sockets.h the other one is within
> drivers/includes/socket.h,...
>
> the first one (drivers/lwip/sockets.h) defines the BSD interface like
> this:
> #define connect lwip_connect()
>
> the second one defines it like this:
> #define connect psc->connect()
>
> configure fails because psc is not declared...
>
> This is just the first error and I wanted to ask for advise, before
> continuing this...
> currently I'm running curl configure like this:
>
> CFLAGS="-I/path/to/firetos/lwip" ./configure
>
> probably this won't be enough, because curl also includes a lot of
> other networking specific includes (tcp.h, netdb.h etc. )
> however, it recognizes the new socket functions. My questions: is it
> ok to use the lwip_xxx function from an user application, or does it
> require superuser mode or something? Is it better to use the
> psc->function() and deal with it? If so, what would you do to make psc
> an known and typesafe symbol for the configtest.c file?
>
> Probably I will also compile c-ares, so I can remove configures check
> fo netdb.h ... however, this has to be done another day :)
>
> Greets & thanks for reading,
> m
>