Module: ngircd.git Branch: master Commit: f1bbc92b391f2dabd8c07234689f4f36207f81c6 URL: http://ngircd.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ngircd.git&a=commit;h=f1bbc...

Author: Alexander Barton alex@barton.de Date: Fri Feb 5 00:24:33 2010 +0100

New README-Interix.txt for running ngIRCd on MS SFU and MS SUA

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diff --git a/doc/README-Interix.txt b/doc/README-Interix.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8f5451f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/README-Interix.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ + + ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server + + (c)2001-2010 Alexander Barton, + alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ + + ngIRCd is free software and published under the + terms of the GNU General Public License. + + + -- README-Interix.txt -- + + +ngIRCd release 15 has successfully been tested on Microsoft Windows XP +Professional using the Services for UNIX (SFU) version 3.5 and Microsoft +Windows 7 with the bundled Subsystem for UNIX Applications (SUA). + +SFU are supported on Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and +Windows Server 2003. SUA is supported on Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows +Server 2008 & 2008 R2, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 -- so ngIRCd should be +able to run on all of these platforms. + +But please note that the poll() API function is not fully implemented by +SFU/SUA and therefore can't be used by ngIRCd -- which normally would be +the default. Please see http://www.suacommunity.com/faqs.aspx section +4.25 for details: + + "If you do try to use the poll() API your program will block on the + API call forever. You must direct your program to build using the + select() API." + +So when running the ./configure script, you HAVE TO DISABLE poll() support: + + ./configure --without-poll + +ngIRCd then defaults to using the select() API function which works fine. +