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SILC Toolkit Reference Manual
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SILC Toolkit Reference Manual
SILC Core Library
    SILC Authentication Interface
    SILC Message Interface
    SILC Channel Interface
    SILC Command Interface
    SILC Notify Interface
    SILC Status Types
    SILC Modes
    SILC ID Interface
    SILC Argument Interface
    SILC Attributes Interface
    Packet Protocol Interface
    SILC Public Key Payload Interface
SILC Utility Library
    Basic Types and Definitions
    Data Buffer Interface
    Data Buffer Format Interface
    Hash Table Interface
    Memory Allocation Interface
    Data Stack (memory pool) Interface
    Finite State Machine Interface
    Thread Interface
    Mutual Exclusion Lock Interface
    Condition Variable Interface
    Atomic Operations Interface
    Network (TCP and UDP) Interface
    Scheduler Interface
    Asynchronous Operation Interface
    Abstract Stream Interface
    Socket Stream Interface
    File Descriptor Stream Interface
    File Utility Functions
    String Utility Interface
    Snprintf Interface
    UTF-8 String Interface
    Stringprep Interface
    Utility Functions
    List Interface
    Dynamic List Interface
    MIME Interface
    Time Utility Functions
    Logging Interface
    Config File Interface
SILC Key Repository Library
    SILC SKR Interface
SILC ASN.1 Library
    SILC ASN.1 Interface
    SILC BER interface
SILC Client Library
    Using SILC Client Library Tutorial
    Arguments for command_reply Client Operation
    SilcStatus Error Arguments in command_reply Client Operation
    Arguments for notify Client Operation
    Unicode and UTF-8 Strings in Client Library
    Client Library Interface Reference
    Client Entry Interface Reference
SILC Key Exchange Library
    SILC SKE Interface
    SILC Connection Authentication Interface
SILC VCard Library
    SILC VCard Interface
SILC SFTP Library
    SILC SFTP Interface
    SFTP Filesystems Interface
SILC HTTP Library
    SILC HTTP Server Interface
    SILC HTTP PHP Translator
SILC Crypto Library
    Introduction to SILC RNG
    SILC RNG Interface
    SILC Cipher API
    SILC PKCS API
    SILC Public Key API
    SILC PKCS #1 API
    SILC Hash Interface
    SILC HMAC Interface
SILC Application Utility Library
    SILC Application Utilities
    SILC ID Cache Interface
SILC Math Library
    SILC MP Interface
    SILC Math Interface

Resource Links
SILC Project Website
SILC Protocol Documentation
SILC White Paper
SILC FAQs





Platform Implementations
 
This document describes the implementation issues with different platforms that the SILC 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. This document descibres these differences between platforms.
 
  • Unix & Linux Implementation
  • Windows Implementation
  • Mac OS X Implementation
  • Symbian Implementation
     
     
    Supported Platforms
     
    SILC Toolkit supports by default all Unix and Linux platforms, Windows platforms from Windows 98 and newer, and Mac OS X. In the future there is also plans to add support for other platforms such as Symbian OS (EPOC).
     
     
    Unix Implementation
     
    All features and components delivered with the SILC Toolkit work on all Unix and Linux platforms. There are no special Unix platform related implementation issues with current version of SILC Toolkit.
     
     
    Windows Implementation
     
    By default all features and components delivered with SILC Toolkit are supported on Windows. However, there are some certain issues with the Windows version of the SILC Toolkit.
     
  • Toolkit users should not use silc_client_run function to execute the Client Library. Instead the silc_client_run_one should be used, for example as an timer task and the Windows application's own message loop should be used as the main message loop.
     
     
    Mac OS X Implementation
     
    All features and components delivered with the SILC Toolkit work on Mac OS X platform. There are no special Mac OS X platform related implementation issues with current version of SILC Toolkit.
     
     
    Symbian Implementation
     
    Symbian support in SILC Toolkit is still experimental. By default all feature and components delivered with SILC Toolkit are supported on Symbian. However, there are some certain issues with the Symbian version of the SILC Toolkit
     
  • The function silc_schedule on Symbian will return immediately, instead of blocking the calling thread/process as on other platforms. On symbian the function is equivalent to silc_schedule_one, and that function should be used instead. The design of SilcSchedule on Symbian enables efficient data I/O even when silc_schedule_one is called from a timer task. The data I/O is scheduled separately by the Symbian Active Scheduler and the SilcSchedule will merely schedule timeouts.








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