Re: Compilation issues with bufref in 7.78.0

From: Henrik Holst via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 21:21:02 +0200

I just downloaded curl-7.78.0.tar.gz to check and the lib/bufref.h does not
contain any #include. Something bad must have happened to your download or
during unpacking.

This is how the file looks in the archive:

#ifndef HEADER_CURL_BUFREF_H
#define HEADER_CURL_BUFREF_H
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/*
 * Generic buffer reference.
 */
struct bufref {
  void (*dtor)(void *); /* Associated destructor. */
  const unsigned char *ptr; /* Referenced data buffer. */
  size_t len; /* The data size in bytes. */
#ifdef DEBUGBUILD
  int signature; /* Detect API use mistakes. */
#endif
};


void Curl_bufref_init(struct bufref *br);
void Curl_bufref_set(struct bufref *br, const void *ptr, size_t len,
                     void (*dtor)(void *));
const unsigned char *Curl_bufref_ptr(const struct bufref *br);
size_t Curl_bufref_len(const struct bufref *br);
CURLcode Curl_bufref_memdup(struct bufref *br, const void *ptr, size_t len);
void Curl_bufref_free(struct bufref *br);

/HH

Den ons 1 sep. 2021 kl 21:02 skrev Abhinav Singhal via curl-library <
curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>:

> Hi,
>
> I’m facing compilation issues while building libcurl 7.78.0 with the newly
> added bufref.c and bufref.h files.
>
>
>
> For instance, bufref.h itself contains a “#include bufref.h” statement,
> i.e. it hash includes itself, which gives the error "#include nested too
> deeply". Once I removed it, it gave the error “incomplete definition of
> type struct bufref”, because the definition of struct bufref is nowhere to
> be found.
>
>
>
> I downloaded curl-7.78.0.tar.gz from curl.se/download.html. I am new to
> libcurl, so I’m wondering if I missed something somewhere. Any pointers
> would help.
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Received on 2021-09-01