[raknet] Re: 2.32 released

  • From: Xavier <xavier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: raknet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:43:54 -0400

Kevin

Is there any sort of patching procedure for RakNet? In lieu of one...

AutoPatcher.cpp in Source/AutoPatcher needs to have <stdlib.h> included
as well, for the "system" call, on Linux (it's defined by default on
Windows). It's harmless on Windows, so it doesn't need to be bracketed
with #ifdef.

Greg

Kevin Jenkins wrote:
> 2.32 is released.
> 
> For Windows, I replaced Sleep with WaitForSingleObject on a timer.  In 
> theory this should greatly improve both performance and consistency. 
> Please let me know if you find this to be the case.
> 
> For reasons I don't understand, it wouldn't compile CreateWaitableTimer 
> and SetWaitableTimer until I globally defined _WIN32_WINNT=0x0410 .  I 
> shouldn't have to do this because it should already be done from 
> windows.h - but it wasn't.  If anyone knows of a resolution to this 
> issue please let me know.  In the meantime, if you use the source 
> directly you will also need to define that in your project settings if 
> you want to use WaitForSingleObject.  Otherwise, it will revert to using 
> Sleep.  There is a #pragma message that indicates which you are using 
> when you build.  The pre-built lib and dll uses WaitForSingleObject.
> 
> Linux continues to use Sleep.  If anyone knows the Linux equivalent 
> please let me know (or better yet - the code).
> 
> This version also fixes a variety of problems with setting the password.
> 
> As a side note, I attempted to fix IO completion ports but due to 
> structural changes I wasn't able to get it to work within a reasonable 
> amount of effort.  In a future version I will re-evaulate the changes 
> needed to get it to work again as well as investigate if it offers any 
> performance benefit over the current optimized system.
> 
> 


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