From bbeb840916c446a605d3c4645800b6add1f32b77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 07:59:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] up-to-date with reality --- lib/README.ares | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/README.ares b/lib/README.ares index 402d6afdf..466f9a0ac 100644 --- a/lib/README.ares +++ b/lib/README.ares @@ -5,56 +5,53 @@ $Id$ | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| - How To Build libcurl to Use ares For Asynch Name Resolves - ========================================================= + How To Build libcurl to Use c-ares For Asynch Name Resolves + =========================================================== -ares: - ftp://athena-dist.mit.edu/pub/ATHENA/ares/ares-1.1.1.tar.gz - http://curl.haxx.se/dev/ares-1.1.1.tar.gz - http://curl.sourceforge.net/dev/ares-1.1.1.tar.gz - http://curl.planetmirror.com/dev/ares-1.1.1.tar.gz - http://curl.tsuren.net/dev/ares-1.1.1.tar.gz - -c-ares: (a patched and improved version of ares) - http://curl.haxx.se/beta/arescurl-1.0-pre1.tar.gz +c-ares: + http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/ NOTE - libcurl works with ares 1.1.1, but several patches and improvements have - been put into the c-ares package which has made it more portable and better - working on several platforms. + libcurl 7.11.1 builds with c-ares 1.1.0, but 7.11.2 and later require c-ares + 1.2.0 or alter. -Build ares -========== + Once upon the time libcurl built fine with the "original" ares. That is no + longer true. You need to use c-ares. c-ares is based on ares but improved. -1. unpack the ares archive -2. cd ares-dir +Build c-ares +============ + +1. unpack the c-ares archive +2. cd c-ares-dir 3. ./configure 4. make -Build libcurl to use ares in the curl source tree -================================================= +Build libcurl to use c-ares in the curl source tree +=================================================== -1. name the ares source directory 'ares' in the curl source directory +1. name the c-ares source directory 'ares' in the curl source directory + (if you have checked out the curl sources from CVS, you will already have + c-ares in a directory named ares). 2. ./configure --enable-ares 3. make -Build libcurl to use an installed ares -====================================== +Build libcurl to use an installed c-ares +======================================== 1. ./configure --enable-ares=/path/to/ares/install 2. make -Ares and ipv6 -============= +c-ares and ipv6 +=============== If the configure script enables IPv6 support you need to explicitly disable -that (--disable-ipv6) since ares isn't IPv6 compatible (yet). +that (--disable-ipv6) since c-ares isn't IPv6 compatible (yet). -Ares on win32 -============= +c-ares on win32 +=============== (description brought by Dominick Meglio) -First I compiled curl-ares. I changed the default C runtime library to be the +First I compiled c-ares. I changed the default C runtime library to be the single-threaded rather than the multi-threaded (this seems to be required to prevent linking errors later on). Then I simply build the areslib project (the other projects adig/ahost seem to fail under MSVC).