mingw build error

[calvin2021y]

wakaama/transport/udp/include/udp/connection.h:21:10: fatal error: 'arpa/inet.h' file not found
   21 | #include <arpa/inet.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~

[rettichschnidi]

Wakaama is designed for POSIX systems, so I'd expect building on/for Windows will fail.

Any chance you are interesting in adding Windows support?

[calvin2021y]

Thanks for explain, I would like to but not sure I am capable to do it.

I would like a event loop interface without network layer will allow every build they own network layer.

[LukasWoodtli]

I don't know much about MinGW. You might want to use Cygwin for making (parts of) the POISX available on Windows.
Alternatively, you could implement your own native platform abstraction. For that, you would need to implement at least the following components for Windows:

• platform wrapper
• transport (UDP)
• event loop

See the corresponding POSIX implementations for inspiration.

[jvermillard]

I expect Wakaama socket/Posix code to work with Cygwin.
If you go the way of implementing your networking code, and if you don't want to deal with win32 network API, you can try to use something like libuv.

[LukasWoodtli]

It would be cool to have an eventloop and networking abstraction implemented upstream with something like libuv (licensing would need to be checked, though).

If we had such an abstraction, only users that want to run Wakaama on embedded devices would need to implement their own abstractions.