Galaxy Communicator Documentation:
Windows Port
Introduction
As of version 4.0, the entire Galaxy Communicator distribution runs on
Windows. This includes previously untested elements such as the toy travel
demo, as well as elements such as the stdin polling
utility which was previously known not to work.
In the core distribution, we distribute a Microsoft Visual C workspace
GC.dsw, which you can use to compile all the C executables in the
distribution. Alternatively, you can download precompiled
binaries. The C executables and libraries are placed in the appropriate
bin or lib directory, in the subdirectory x86-nt
(the ARCHOS value for Windows).
A precompiled shared library for the Python bindings is also included; note
that this library requires Python 2.2.
We'd like to thank AT&T, MIT and CMU for their contributions to the
Windows port of the HUB and support libraries.
What libraries
do I need to compile the HUB?
The HUB executable depends on the libGalaxy.lib library.
How do I write a server?
The following are the libraries that most servers require:
- libGalaxy.lib
- libMITRE_galaxy.lib (possibly)
There is no longer any difference between platforms in writing a server.
As documented in the section on adding
a server, the new style
of header generation relies only on the C preprocessor, so it is portable
across platforms. All MITRE examples have been upgraded to use this new
style. As a demonstration, the double example
has been ported to NT.
Differences between Unix and Windows
The functionality differs slightly between Unix and Windows versions.
Below are some of the known limitations and differences.
- Reading with time-out (in sock.c) was replaced with regular reads
under Windows since SIGALARMS are not supported.
- Logging to syslog wasn't ported since the syslog facility does not
exist under Windows.
- Logging using the Hub will not lock files before writing to them.
- The Hub will take significantly longer on Windows to time out from
a connect() socket call. This is a Windows OS issue.
Language bindings
Both Python
and Java are
known to work on Windows.
Last modified August 16, 2002
