Topic: Apache Portable Runtime

[sidinsd]

I have a project written completely in C that runs on various different platforms, including LINUX, UNIX and Windows.

Currently the project is POSIX compatible, but it is very difficult to maintain the portability of this project.

I would like to convert it to use the Apache Portable Runtime, to make it easier to maintain portability.

I have gone to the Apache Portable Runtime project site and downloaded APR version 1.4 and wrote a little test program that worked fine.

I have also seen some articles about programming APR in Linux magazine and other places. I have also looked at the excellent apr tutorial provided at ariel-networks.

The one thing I haven't found yet and it is something that would help me immensely, is a side by side table of POSIX compatible APIs with the corresponding APR API. Now I realize that that mapping may not be one-to-one, but a table that just says on one side, for example, "to do a getenv()" and then the other side would say "do an apr_get_env()".

Now I realize the API names are geared towards that, but it is not always clear which POSIX APIs correspond to which APR APIs. Also, sometimes the APR API requires some work before calling it, like setting up memory pools, etc. that wasn't required with POSIX, so if the table pointed that out also it would really help.

Anyone out there have something like this?

[James Blond]

Since there wasn't an answer yet. Did you solve it yourself? If not you should ask in the dev mailing lists http://apr.apache.org/mailing-lists.html