Re: os independent interface to socket sendmsg/recvmsg

[Eric Norum <eric@norum.ca>]

Once upon a time I had a look at building the libboost package (which I believe asio needs) for RTEMS.
I ran aground trying to get the libboost and RTEMS build systems to play together.
If you've had success with this it would be great to get it folded back into the RTEMS or libboost distribution.

On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 March 2011 09:42:22 Michael Davidsaver wrote:
>> http://think-async.com/Asio/AsioAndBoostAsio
>> 
>>> and perhaps people might complain that there is another
>>> component to install,
>> 
>> 1) ASIO is headers only
>> 
>>>  and of course we would need to see if boost is really
>>> portable to the many different CPU architectures in embedded systems.
>> 
>> There is nothing intrinsically architecture specific about socket
>> operations.  It is mostly a function of compiler support.
> 
> Looks interesting, have you tried building with it for RTEMS or vxWorks?
> 
> - Andrew
> -- 
> An error is only a mistake if you don't learn from it.
> When you learn something from it, it becomes a lesson.
> 

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Eric Norum
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