[Libevent-users] using libEvent 2.x with Visual C++

[Patrick Pelletier <ppelletier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry if this is a frequently asked question, but I haven't been able to 
find an answer in the documentation or mailing list archives.

My ultimate goals are:

- I'd like to use libEvent from an application built with Visual C++ 2010
- I'd like libEvent to be a DLL (not a static library)
- I want to use the OpenSSL integration

I'm making the following assumptions:

- I need to compile libEvent with the same compiler that I want to 
compile my own code with (since libEvent doesn't seem to have an 
equivalent to OpenSSL's "applink.c" that bridges between the two 
compilers' runtimes)
- The "configure" script can only be used to build with MinGW or CygWin
- Therefore, I need to use Makefile.nmake
- Besides having some scary comments at the top, Makefile.nmake 
currently doesn't work (failed with some undefined symbols like 
_evutil_gettimeofday when I tried it)
- Even if Makefile.nmake worked, it only builds static libraries, and 
doesn't build the OpenSSL integration

My questions are:

- Are all of my above assumptions/observations correct?
- Are there others interested in using libEvent with Visual C++, or am I 
the only one?
- Am I better off starting with the Makefile.nmake and fixing it, or 
would I be better off starting from scratch with something like CMake?
- Is the build system likely to be the main issue in getting libEvent to 
work with Visual C++, or is it expected that there will be issues with 
the code itself, in getting it to compile with Visual C++?

Thanks for any answers/thoughts about this!

--Patrick
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