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 2 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
 3 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex                            http://ngircd.barton.de/
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 5 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex                (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
 6 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex                ngIRCd is free software and published under the
 7 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex                    terms of the GNU General Public License.
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 9 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex                          -- README-Interix.txt --
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12 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex ngIRCd release 15 has successfully been tested on Microsoft Windows XP
13 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex Professional using the Services for UNIX (SFU) version 3.5 and Microsoft
14 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex Windows 7 with the bundled Subsystem for UNIX Applications (SUA).
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16 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex SFU are supported on Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and
17 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex Windows Server 2003. SUA is supported on Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows
18 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex Server 2008 & 2008 R2, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 -- so ngIRCd should be
19 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex able to run on all of these platforms.
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21 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex But please note that two things:
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23 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex 1. Don't use the poll() IO API
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25 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex The poll() API function is not fully implemented by SFU/SUA and therefore
26 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex can't be used by ngIRCd -- which normally would be the default. Please see
27 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex <http://www.suacommunity.com/faqs.aspx> section 4.25 for details:
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29 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex   "If you do try to use the poll() API your program will block on the
30 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex   API call forever. You must direct your program to build using the
31 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex   select() API."
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33 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex So when running the ./configure script, you HAVE TO DISABLE poll() support:
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35 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex   ./configure --without-poll
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37 f1bbc92b 2010-02-04 alex ngIRCd then defaults to using the select() API function which works fine.
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39 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex 2. Use GNU make(1)
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41 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex Starting with ngIRCd 18, our build system doesn't work with the default
42 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex make(1) binary of Interix, you should use GNU make instead (tested with
43 273d4bdd 2012-02-29 alex version 3.82 built from source).
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