This document describes the implementation issues with different platforms that the SILC Runtime Toolkit support. Some of the supported platforms does not support all the features delivered with the Toolkit or they may behave differently from other platforms.
- Unix & Linux Implementation
- Windows Implementation
- Mac OS X Implementation
- Symbian OS Implementation
The Toolkit supports by default all Unix and Linux platforms, Windows platforms from Windows 2000 and newer, Mac OS X and Symbian OS.
Unix Implementation
All features and components delivered with the Toolkit work on all Unix and Linux platforms. There are no special Unix platform related implementation issues with current version of Toolkit.
Windows Implementation
By default all features and components delivered with Toolkit are supported on Windows. However, there are some certain issues with the Windows version of the Toolkit.
- Some of the network routines do not support IPv6.
Mac OS X Implementation
All features and components delivered with the Toolkit work on Mac OS X platform. There are no special Mac OS X platform related implementation issues with current version of Toolkit.
Symbian OS Implementation
Symbian OS support in Toolkit is still experimental. By default all features and components delivered with the Toolkit are supported and should work on Symbian. However, there are some issues with the Symbian version of the Toolkit of what Symbian developers need to be aware.
- The function silc_schedule on Symbian will allocate new Active Scheduler Waiter and will block the calling thread. The caller should allocate Active Scheduler before calling silc_schedule.
- When adding timeout tasks to SILC Scheduler the SILC Scheduler is woken up after the timeout task has been added. This allows adding of the timeout tasks from Symbian active objects outside the SILC Scheduler loop. On other platforms this wakeup operation is not performed.
- Adding fd task to SILC Scheduler will not schedule the fd for any operation. Instead, programmer should use SILC Socket Stream API and SILC Fd Stream API on Symbian when dealing with file descriptors and sockets. These APIs provide asynchronous notification when data is available and can be written.
- The function silc_thread_create on Symbian will install Active Scheduler and allocate Cleanup Stack for the new thread. The created thread always shares heap with the parent thread.