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Re: what library provides __b64_ntop? (libresolv does not)


On May 21 00:19, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2013-05-20 23:57, Luke White wrote:
> >There appears to be an implementation of that function in cygwin's
> >src/newlib/libc/sys/linux/net/base64.c.  Is it possible to link
> >against whatever that gets compiled to?  If not, could that function
> >be copied to cygwin's libresolv?  When the header and implementation
> >are already there it seems a shame not to make it available.
> 
> That is an older version of the file currently shipped by FreeBSD,
> but like other libc/sys/linux files, it is only compiled into newlib
> when targeting Linux.  The file compiles cleanly on Cygwin, but
> whether or not we want to provide these non-standard functions would
> be up to cgf or Corinna.

I just added the latest FreeBSD version of the base64.c file to Cygwin,
so we have them in the next version.


HTH,
Corinna

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