Re: libssh and Visual C++ (again)

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 27 September 2012 14:41:33 Christophe Baribaud wrote:
> This is my last cumulative patch to address this issue...
> The new file "libssh_config.h" is built by cmake, and installed. It is the
> /public/ configuration file, unlike config.h which is the /private/
> configuration file.
> 
> I haven't found a simplier patch to continue using ssize_t under unix/linux
> platforms, and provide a good equivalent under WIN32 and WIN64 platforms
> Trying to define the ssize_t type under windows has serious drawbacks.
> Under WIN32, it is sometimes int and sometimes long (signed 32 bits). Under
> WIN64 it should be __int64 (signed 64 bits). If two libraries define
> ssize_t by their own, there are great (bad) chances that they disagree...

I think this is still too complex and I don't like it.

The sftp functions should simply return an int64_t.

We can add a 

typedef int64_t ssh_ssize_t to libssh.h, but it doesn't really matter.


Cheers,


	-- andreas