ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server

http://ngircd.barton.de/

(c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.

ngIRCd is free software and published under the

terms of the GNU General Public License.

-- README-Interix.txt --

ngIRCd release 15 has successfully been tested on Microsoft Windows XP

Professional using the Services for UNIX (SFU) version 3.5 and Microsoft

Windows 7 with the bundled Subsystem for UNIX Applications (SUA).

SFU are supported on Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and

Windows Server 2003. SUA is supported on Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows

Server 2008 & 2008 R2, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 -- so ngIRCd should be

able to run on all of these platforms.

But please note that two things:

1. Don't use the poll() IO API

The poll() API function is not fully implemented by SFU/SUA and therefore

can't be used by ngIRCd -- which normally would be the default. Please see

<http://www.suacommunity.com/faqs.aspx> section 4.25 for details:

"If you do try to use the poll() API your program will block on the

API call forever. You must direct your program to build using the

select() API."

So when running the ./configure script, you HAVE TO DISABLE poll() support:

./configure --without-poll

ngIRCd then defaults to using the select() API function which works fine.

2. Use GNU make(1)

Starting with ngIRCd 18, our build system doesn't work with the default

make(1) binary of Interix, you should use GNU make instead (tested with

version 3.82 built from source).