Notes About Windows NT
These are the installation and user notes for the W3C Reference Library and the Line Mode Browser. Any
comments and suggestions are welcome at
libwww@w3.org.
The NT port is now much better and we can thank Charlie Brooks for this. He has made
a README-WinNT
describing how to get started. Wissam Y Ali-Ahmed has also made
important contributions. See also the notes on Windows
- WinSock DLL
- The socket interface is based on a WinSock
DLL, preferably a version greater than 1.1.
- Dynamic Library (DLL)
- The Library can't compile as a DLL out of the box. It requires
some modifications and possibly some minor patches. Please remember to
send the patches, so that we can put them in!
- Direct WAIS access
- The normal possibility for linking with the WAIS library is not
possible on the Windows NT platform. Therefore the WWW Library module
HTWAIS must be excluded in
the make file.
- Memory Model
- The memory model used should be LARGE. This has the
limitation that a single data object can't exceed 64K which might
cause problems in some situations.
- Errno Constants
- WinSock doesn't define the errno constants EWOULDBLOCK etc. on a
NT platform in order to avoid clashes with the internal errno
constants. We have provided some of the constants in tcp module
Henrik Frystyk, libwww@w3.org, July 1995