what library provides __b64_ntop? (libresolv does not)
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue May 21 10:09:00 GMT 2013
On May 21 00:19, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2013-05-20 23:57, Luke White wrote:
> >There appears to be an implementation of that function in cygwin's
> >src/newlib/libc/sys/linux/net/base64.c. Is it possible to link
> >against whatever that gets compiled to? If not, could that function
> >be copied to cygwin's libresolv? When the header and implementation
> >are already there it seems a shame not to make it available.
>
> That is an older version of the file currently shipped by FreeBSD,
> but like other libc/sys/linux files, it is only compiled into newlib
> when targeting Linux. The file compiles cleanly on Cygwin, but
> whether or not we want to provide these non-standard functions would
> be up to cgf or Corinna.
I just added the latest FreeBSD version of the base64.c file to Cygwin,
so we have them in the next version.
HTH,
Corinna
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