dns-sd dll implementation -- Needs work
What do you guys think? it's a wrapper for multicast DNS, aka Bonjour®. I know there's probably a patches mailing list, but I put this here for feedback.
Hi C.W.,
I know there's probably a patches mailing list, but I put this here for feedback.
This is the appropriate place to ask about patches that aren't ready to commit yet. +#include <dns_sd.h> At the least, you'll need to add configure checks for this header file. I imagine you'll need to load the library dynamically, too. On at least one of my systems, /usr/lib/libdns_sd.so is available, but <dns_sd.h> is not. I'm not sure how common that would be, but you might want to provide a private copy of the .h file too. --Juan
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:37, Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> wrote:
"C.W. Betts" <computers57(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
What do you guys think? it's a wrapper for multicast DNS, aka Bonjour®.
Looks like this is not a part of Windows or PSDK
Neither is OpenAL.... It might provide functionality as part of Wine that might be hard to implement on top of Wine? On OS X, it would also eliminate the need to install the Windows version of Apple applications bundled with OS X in order to run things that uses a single library provided by them. (e.g. Bonjour support in VLC) Gert
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Gert van den Berg <wine-devel(a)mohag.net> wrote:
On OS X, it would also eliminate the need to install the Windows version of Apple applications bundled with OS X in order to run things that uses a single library provided by them. (e.g. Bonjour support in VLC)
Do you really want to run the Windows version of VLC on OS X? I believe there is a better case to be made with Safari/Quicktime/iTunes as I believe they also install Bonjour services on Windows. If you wanted to validate/compare how the native service works verses say a wrapper then it would be of use. Thanks -- Steven Edwards "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 18:57, Steven Edwards <winehacker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Do you really want to run the Windows version of VLC on OS X? I believe there is a better case to be made with Safari/Quicktime/iTunes as I believe they also install Bonjour services on Windows. If you wanted to validate/compare how the native service works verses say a wrapper then it would be of use.
Pidgin might be another example... What I really meant is that it should at least be evaluated... (I didn't realize at the time that Bonjour for Windows has a seperate installer available...) It might have a valid use if conflicts exist between Windows Bonjour under Wine and native bonjour / other Zeroconf implementations... (such as listening on the same port) (If such a confilct exists, it should be possible to run either a ZeroConf implementation natively or to run it under Wine, but not both. This can be problematic, since two of Wine's largest platforms, Ubuntu and OS X installs ZeroConf implementations by default) (I'm not familiar enough with Bonjour / ZeroConf to really understand which parts of it is wrapped by this DLL) (It seems that DNS Service Discovery is able to function without mDNS) Just a note: According to Wikipedia, Photoshop CS3 is among the applications using Bonjour under Windows: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/01/cs3_doesnt_inst.html Gert
On Feb 23, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Gert van den Berg wrote:
Just a note: According to Wikipedia, Photoshop CS3 is among the applications using Bonjour under Windows: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/01/cs3_doesnt_inst.html
Gert
And I read a bugzilla report that CS3 was having issues because of it.
From what I can tell, DNS SD uses obscure structs and memory is allocated / deallocated using it's own functions. This wrapper wraps each function.
I did edit the configure.ac file, but couldn't get autoconf to create a good configure file. Patch v2 attached
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