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31 <big><b>Platform Implementations</b></big>
34 This document describes the implementation issues with different platforms
35 that the SILC Runtime Toolkit support. Some of the supported platforms
36 does not support all the features delivered with the Toolkit or they may
37 behave differently from other platforms.
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41 <li><a href="#unix">Unix & Linux Implementation</a><br />
42 <li><a href="#windows">Windows Implementation</a><br />
43 <li><a href="#macosx">Mac OS X Implementation</a>
44 <li><a href="#symbian">Symbian OS Implementation</a>
47 <b>Supported Platforms</b>
50 The Toolkit supports by default all Unix and Linux platforms, Windows
51 platforms from Windows 2000 and newer, Mac OS X and Symbian OS.
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54 <b><a name="unix"></a>Unix Implementation</b>
57 All features and components delivered with the Toolkit work on all
58 Unix and Linux platforms. There are no special Unix platform related
59 implementation issues with current version of Toolkit.
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63 <b><a name="windows"></a>Windows Implementation</b>
66 By default all features and components delivered with Toolkit are
67 supported on Windows. However, there are some certain issues with the
68 Windows version of the Toolkit.
72 <li>Some of the network routines do not support IPv6.
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76 <b><a name="macosx"></a>Mac OS X Implementation</b>
79 All features and components delivered with the Toolkit work on Mac
80 OS X platform. There are no special Mac OS X platform related
81 implementation issues with current version of Toolkit.
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85 <b><a name="symbian"></a>Symbian OS Implementation</b>
88 Symbian OS support in Toolkit is still experimental. By default all
89 features and components delivered with the Toolkit are supported and
90 should work on Symbian. However, there are some issues with the Symbian
91 version of the Toolkit of what Symbian developers need to be aware.
94 <li>The function <tt>silc_schedule</tt> on Symbian will allocate new Active
95 Scheduler Waiter and will block the calling thread. The caller should
96 allocate Active Scheduler before calling <tt>silc_schedule</tt>.
98 <li>When adding timeout tasks to SILC Scheduler the SILC Scheduler is woken
99 up after the timeout task has been added. This allows adding of the
100 timeout tasks from Symbian active objects outside the SILC Scheduler loop.
101 On other platforms this wakeup operation is not performed.
103 <li>Adding fd task to SILC Scheduler will not schedule the fd for any
104 operation. Instead, programmer should use SILC Socket Stream API and SILC
105 Fd Stream API on Symbian when dealing with file descriptors and sockets.
106 These APIs provide asynchronous notification when data is available and can
109 <li>The function <tt>silc_thread_create</tt> on Symbian will install Active
110 Scheduler and allocate Cleanup Stack for the new thread. The created
111 thread always shares heap with the parent thread.
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