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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 ID Cache Interface     SILC Argument Interface     SILC Attributes Interface     Packet Protocol Interface SILC Utility Library     Basic SILC Types     SILC Buffer Interface     SILC Buffer Format Interface     SILC Hash Table Interface     SILC Logging Interface     SILC Memory Interface     SILC Mutex Interface     SILC Thread Interface     SILC Network Interface     SILC Schedule Interface     SILC Socket Interface     SILC Protocol Interface     SILC Config Interface     SILC File Util Interface     SILC String Util Interface     SILC UTF-8 Interface     SILC Stringprep Interface     SILC Util Interface     SILC List Interface     SILC Dynamic List Interface     SILC VCard Interface     SILC Application Utilities     SILC MIME Interface SILC Crypto Library     Introduction to SILC RNG     SILC RNG Interface     SILC Cipher API     SILC PKCS API     SILC PKCS#1 API     SILC Hash Interface     SILC HMAC Interface SILC SFTP Library     SILC SFTP Interface     SFTP Filesystems 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 SILC Key Exchange Library     SILC SKE Interface     SKE Status Types     SKE Diffie Hellman Groups     SKE Payloads 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     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. The function silc_net_create_connection_async is not actually asynchronous on Windows, but synchronous and it will block the process while the connection is created. This means also that the function silc_client_connect_to_server is not asynchronous but synchronous.     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.

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