curl-library
Re: IDN support using native win32 APIs
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:44:54 +0100
Pierre Joye wrote:
> > What would you think about a dynamic import of these functions, and if that
> > fails then continue without IDN support? This would have the benefit that
> > binaries compiled with this feature would work too on platforms which lack
> > IDN support.
>
> We could use the LoadLibrary to detect if normaliz.dll is installed,
> load it and call the desired functions. However I fear a little bit
> the performance impact here. As host resolution can be a bottleneck,
> especially when an app is doing a lot of different requests. Maybe we
> can do it for the mingw builds only?
Is it not possible to LoadLibrary just once and remember the symbol
resolution?
-- Jamie
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Received on 2011-04-22