Thanks Daniel for answering the questions.

>> Due to budget constraints for further support from WindRiver, i need to
>> port libcurl to VxWorks for the HTTP/HTTPS support that we need.
>
> Out of curiousity: does this mean that there is some kind of HTTP(S)
> library that Wind River provides/supports for VxWorks?

Well, to answer your question first, WindRiver does provide HTTP(S) library.
They have it for their web-server based products. Since, my domain is an
embedded one, they just provide basic/minimum support for HTTP not HTTPS(
and this depends on what version of VxWorks we use). And yes, they can
provide additional libraries, but they charge heavily for it...:((

Well, here are my next set of questions :-

1. I know OpenSSL is for Linux primarily, but how easy would it be if we
plan to port it to VxWorks. I mean is there any POSIX layer/wrapper that can
help me in porting SSL to VxWorks ?
2. I have made my own config-vxworks.h file from the sample OSes config
files that are there in curl-7.14.1/lib folder. Although i am having some
trouble compiling the library, i think i can remove the errors.My question
is have i started correctly ?
3. Isn't OpenSSL bundled with curl-7.14.1 available on the website ?

And yes i use VxWorks version 5.5 .

Thanks a lot!!

This should get me started.. for the time being i guess ;)

Rajneesh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
To: "libcurl development" <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: Port for VxWorks

> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Rajneesh wrote:
>
>> Has anyone ported libcurl to VxWorks.
>
> Not that I know of.
>
>> Due to budget constraints for further support from WindRiver, i need to
>> port libcurl to VxWorks for the HTTP/HTTPS support that we need.
>
> Out of curiousity: does this mean that there is some kind of HTTP(S)
> library that Wind River provides/supports for VxWorks?
>
> Knowing the competition is always good! ;-)
>
>> 1. Is libcurl portable to VxWorks?
>
> It has been a good while since I last looked at VxWorks (we're talking
> almost ten years ago) but afaik it has (at least optional) POSIX layers
> and using a such it certainly feels possible to port libcurl to it.
>
> Without a POSIX layer, you may get a hard time to adjust the POSIX-ness of
> libcurl's code to the VxWorks way of doing things. It still will be
> possible, but it will give you more work.
>
>> 2. What are the specific dependencies i need to take care?
>
> If you want HTTPS you need a SSL layer and that's probably gonna be the
> bigger part of your work. libcurl supports both OpenSSL and GnuTLS.
>
>> 3. What are the files (config.h) etc i need to change.
>
> I think you should start with a freshly generated config.h file and then
> edit it according to what you think is fit for your target/compiler.
>
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>
Received on 2005-09-08