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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ users <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] BlueZ on other platforms
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:05:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1169301946.30356.7.camel@violet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5dccebe0701200259i156f623ci1fc12159affbd2f4@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Mikel,

> > > Is it possible to get bluez to work on other platforms than Linux? I'm
> > > asking because it's a real good bluetooth stack and that's a rare
> > > thing... So technically it's not bluez, but bluez-libs. So what about
> > >
> > > Bluez on Mac?
> > > Bluez on Windows?
> > > Bluez on Cygwin on Windows?
> >
> > non of that will work. The Bluetooth library depends on kernel
> > structures and one of the big advantages of BlueZ is the native
> > integration with the socket API.
>
> So not even for Cygwin? How difficult would this be to add? I.e. how
> big parts of bluez would have to be rewritten and how much could be
> reused to make it work on cygwin (I suppose this would be layered on
> top of the Microsoft bluetooth stack)?

this all depends on what's your goal and how your applications look
like. The best emulation would be of course our D-Bus based API, but
even that is a lot of work. A native emulation of BlueZ is not realistic
from my point of view. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Regards

Marcel



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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-20 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-19 13:17 [Bluez-users] BlueZ on other platforms Mikael Lindqvist
2007-01-19 15:17 ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-01-20 10:59   ` Mikael Lindqvist
2007-01-20 14:05     ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2007-02-13  6:57       ` siddhant tewari
2007-02-13  9:35         ` Marcel Holtmann

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