tree 5539948df10023f1c4e32f71c974c5f9938ef745
parent d88edf2e522d30c5bae5713e1b4b1af96e71547a
author Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhak@dcftech.com> 1244996874 +0200
committer Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> 1244996874 +0200
encoding latin1

[BUILD] add support for build under Cygwin

After considering various possibilities, we compiled haproxy under cygwin.
Attached is an updated full diff that also has the TARGET=cygwin documented.
The whole thing compiles and installs with this diff only.

In cygwin 1.7 (now in beta), there is apparently support for ipv6.  Cygwin
1.5 (later versions, anyway) already includes some support in the form of a
define USE_IPV6.  When defined, it declares the sockaddr_in6 struct and
possibly other things.  The above definition AF_INET6=23 is taken from
their /usr/include/socket.h file (where it is #if 0'd out).

We are running into a socket limit.  It appears that Cygwin (running on
Windows 2003 Server) will only allow us to set ulimit -n (maximum open
files) to 3200, which means we're a little short of 1600 connections.

The limit of 3200 is an internal Cygwin limit.  Perhaps they can raise it in
the future.  Using the nbproc option, I was able to bring up 10 servers.  It
seems to me that they were able to handle over 2000 connections (even though
each had maxconn 1500 set, and the hard Cygwin fd limit).