locallycompact / Win32-network

Networking library for Windows

Asynchronous IO for Windows

Win32-network provides interface for asynchronous (overlapped) IO on Windows via implemented IO manager. It supports:

• File api
• NamedPipes api
• Berkeley sockets api on Windows via winsock2

NamedPipes provide a good alternative for the lack of Unix Sockets on Windows, and there are ways of providing abstraction for both, though this is not present in this package.

An application which is using this package should use -threaded option, as the io manager thread runs a blocking ffi call (e.g. GetQueuedCompletionStatus).

Haddocks

Haddocks are available via github-pages.

GHC Native IO Manager

A recent version of GHC has a native io-manager on Windows. Part of this library will become obsolete once the network will use it.

Acknowledgement

The initial version of this library was based on winio by Felix Martini.