*** IMPORTANT *** 

This is a STABLE release of GNet 1.1 on Windows.

This snapshot was compiled with extra development GNet code.
That code has not been tested on windows. See README for
a list of Experimental code.

I am using Glib CVS HEAD checked out on 2001-7-24.
A checkout at a later date may not compile or work. Tor is back 
and working on a new release of glib.

If you don't want to compile GLib and are willing to use
an old buggy release use GLib 1.3 snapshot 20010301.
[http://www.gimp.org/win32/glib-dev-20010301.zip]
That glib snapshot has two confirmed problems:
1) glib's socket iochannels are not freed properly,
which causes Winsock to run out of buffer space over time.
[It is fixed in GLIB's CVS]
2) glib's window handle callback code always calls back,
GNet in this release ignores those extra callbacks. [It is
fixed in GLIB's CVS]

Join or checkout the mailing lists at
http://www.gnetlibrary.org/ for the most
up-to-date information.

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GNet README for Win32
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This document contains
 - General Win32 Specific Information
 - MINGW/GCC & CYGWIN Notes
 - MSVC 6.0 Notes
 - HACKING/TODO on Win32


General Win32 Specific Information
----------------------------------

The Windows port requires either Windows 95 (with the Winsock2 patch)
or better, or Windows NT (with Service Pack 4) or better. 

gnet_inetaddr_gethostname() can't handle hostnames over 256 chars.

gnet_private_inetaddr_list_interfaces() does not support more than 10
interfaces.

Reminder that on windows, text files have extra "\r" in them where as
on *NIX they do not. This will throw off SHA & MD5 if you don't filter
the extra characters out before calling those functions.

MINGW/GCC & CYGWIN Notes
------------------------

Compiling GNet on windows with gcc/mingw is supported. You first need to patch 
w32api up to version 0.5 or later. [see http://mingw.sourceforge.net/] 
A makefile to build GNet is included in the zip. 
[UPDATE: I have not tested Mingw 1.0 with GNet]

You can use/link GNet with gcc/mingw. A ".a" is included in the zip.
A makefile is provided to compile the example programs.

When compiling your program use the "-lws2_32 switch"
example:
gcc -g -Wall -mno-cygwin -mpentium -fnative-struct -I../glib -I. -I../gnet 
-L../glib -L../gnet hostinfo.c -o hostinfo -lgnet-1.0 -lglib-1.3 -lws2_32

MSVC 6.0 Notes
--------------

How to link your project to the Gnet DLL uing MSVC 6.0:
Download the latest version of Glib for Win32 and copy the header
files and glib-X.Y.dll and glib-X.Y.lib to the gnet project folder. Do
the same for GNet. Remember change your project settings to include
glib-X.Y.lib gnet-X.Y.lib in the link tab.

How to compile GNet with MSVC 6.0:
Download the latest version of Glib for Win32 and copy the header
files and glib-X.Y.dll and glib-X.Y.lib to your project folder.
Download the latest version of Gnet for Win32 and a .dsp file is 
provided to build the project.


HACKING/TODO on Win32
---------------------

For a general description on how GNet for Win32 was implemented see
halfway down gnet-private.c.

FIX: gnet_inetaddr_gethostname() so it can handle hostnames over 256 chars.

FIX: gnet_private_inetaddr_list_interfaces() so it support more than
10 Interfaces.

.