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Caroline & Gil Brenner | 10 Jul 2012 16:11

Windows 8 Metro porting

Hi,

Win 8 metro does not support winsock API.

Is there any chance Curl-library will be ported soon to Run as a Windows 8 Metro application.

I am using Curl in a multi-platform project and unless this happens soon we will have to stop using Curl and switch to WinRT directly for http calls.

That is allot of work...

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Daniel Stenberg | 10 Jul 2012 16:37

Re: Windows 8 Metro porting

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Caroline & Gil Brenner wrote:

> Is there any chance Curl-library will be ported soon to Run as a Windows 8 
> Metro application.

libcurl development happens when people step forward, do the necessary stuff 
and send us the patches. I have not heard of anyone saying they're working on 
a win8 port so you have the chance to become the first!

> I am using Curl in a multi-platform project and unless this happens soon we 
> will have to stop using Curl and switch to WinRT directly for http calls. 
> That is allot of work...

... work that you could spend on making libcurl build on win8 and thus your 
applications could remain as-is...

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Ellié Computing Open Source Program | 10 Jul 2012 16:56

Re: Re: Windows 8 Metro porting

>From: Daniel Stenberg On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Caroline & Gil Brenner wrote:
>> Is there any chance Curl-library will be ported soon to Run as a Windows 
>> 8 Metro application.
>libcurl development happens when people step forward, do the necessary 
>stuff and send us the patches. I have not heard of anyone saying they're 
>working on a win8 port so you have the chance to become the first!
libcurl works perfectly on windows 8, I suppose it's only the Metro part 
which is in question here.
I just went through the "desktop" certification software kit and it does not 
complain.

Best regards
Armel

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Caroline & Gil Brenner | 11 Jul 2012 14:57

Re: Windows 8 Metro porting

>From: Daniel Stenberg On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Caroline & Gil Brenner wrote:
>> Is there any chance Curl-library will be ported soon to Run as a Windows
>> 8 Metro application.
>libcurl development happens when people step forward, do the necessary
>stuff and send us the patches. I have not heard of anyone saying they're
>working on a win8 port so you have the chance to become the first!
> libcurl works perfectly on windows 8, I suppose it's only the Metro part
> which is in question here.
> I just went through the "desktop" certification software kit and it does not
> complain.

>Best regards
>Armel

Thanks Armel and Daniel,

Yes, I need to port Curl to Metro (Win8 Desktop works fine) and there is a large volume of work for this.

If anyone knows about such an attempt, I'll be happy to join the effort.

thanks,

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nithesh salian | 29 Jul 2012 16:37

Re: Windows 8 Metro porting

Not sure if this helps. More of a hack I guess.

We compiled curl on Windows 8 with the windows 7 run time APIs to make it compile and then linked it with our application. We did this primarily because the following was required in windows 8 metro.

Ø Ws2_32.lib

Ø Winmm.lib

We are now able to transfer files on Windows 8.

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Caroline & Gil Brenner <carolgil.b <at> gmail.com> wrote:

>From: Daniel Stenberg On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Caroline & Gil Brenner wrote:
>> Is there any chance Curl-library will be ported soon to Run as a Windows
>> 8 Metro application.
>libcurl development happens when people step forward, do the necessary
>stuff and send us the patches. I have not heard of anyone saying they're
>working on a win8 port so you have the chance to become the first!
> libcurl works perfectly on windows 8, I suppose it's only the Metro part
> which is in question here.
> I just went through the "desktop" certification software kit and it does not
> complain.

>Best regards
>Armel

Thanks Armel and Daniel,

Yes, I need to port Curl to Metro (Win8 Desktop works fine) and there is a large volume of work for this.

If anyone knows about such an attempt, I'll be happy to join the effort.

thanks,

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