Sunday, 14 December 2014

Using libmicrohttpd with MSVC

Windows is not POSIX compliant. Attempting to include files like sys/select.h will not work because they don't exist. Here's a step-by-step guide to get the libmicrohttpd demo working on MSVC.
  1. Add the include directory.
  2. Make sure code generation runtime library is set to multi-threaded DLL (/MDd or /MD).
  3. Include the library directory (/lib and /bin).
  4. Add dependency libmicrohttpd.dll.a and Ws2_32.lib
  5. Go to Linker > All Options and make sure /SAFESH is not Yes. (Am using libmicrohttpd-0.9.17-w32, not sure for newer versions).
  6. Finally, include also the following.
#ifndef MHD_PLATFORM_H
#define MHD_PLATFORM_H
#include <winsock2.h> // socket related definitions
#include <ws2tcpip.h> // socket related definitions
#include <sys/types.h>
typedef SSIZE_T ssize_t; //Windows type to unix type
typedef UINT64 uint64_t; //Windows type to unix type
typedef UINT16 uint16_t; //Windows type to unix type
#endif
#include <microhttpd.h>
...

That should be about it.
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3 comments:

  1. Hector Hon4 January 2015 at 11:58

    libmicrohttpd-0.9.17-w32 has known vulnerabilities, it is strongly advised to use one of the newer versions. For further information check out this link.

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  2. Anonymous1 July 2015 at 00:37

    It's also easy to run it with MinGW-GCC under windows. the "typedef SSIZE_T ssize_t" is not needed in this case.

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