Re: Compilation issues with bufref in 7.78.0

From: Abhinav Singhal via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 22:53:31 -0400

Thanks a lot, Henrik. I downloaded libcurl again, and was able to compile
it without a glitch. As you pointed out, something somewhere must have
gotten messed up in my earlier attempt.
Thanks again.

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 3:21 PM Henrik Holst <henrik.holst_at_millistream.com>
wrote:

> 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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> *
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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 2021-09-02