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SILC Toolkit Reference Manual
SILC VCard Library
SILC VCard Interface
SILC Crypto Library
Introduction to SILC RNG
SILC RNG Interface
SILC Cipher API
SILC PKCS API
SILC Public Key API
SILC PKCS #1 API
SILC Hash Interface
SILC HMAC Interface
SILC Client Library
Using SILC Client Library Tutorial
Arguments for command_reply Client Operation
SilcStatus Error Arguments in command_reply Client Operation
Arguments for notify Client Operation
Unicode and UTF-8 Strings in Client Library
Client Library Interface Reference
Client Entry Interface Reference
SILC Math Library
SILC MP Interface
SILC Math Interface
SILC Application Utility Library
SILC Application Utilities
SILC ID Cache Interface
SILC Key Repository Library
SILC SKR Interface
SILC ASN.1 Library
SILC ASN.1 Interface
SILC BER interface
SILC Key Exchange Library
SILC SKE Interface
SILC Connection Authentication Interface
SILC SFTP Library
SILC SFTP Interface
SFTP Filesystems Interface
SILC Core Library
SILC Authentication Interface
SILC Message Interface
SILC Channel Interface
SILC Command Interface
SILC Notify Interface
SILC Status Types
SILC Modes
SILC ID Interface
SILC Argument Interface
SILC Attributes Interface
Packet Engine Interface
SILC Public Key Payload Interface
SILC Utility Library
Basic Types and Definitions
Data Buffer Interface
Data Buffer Format Interface
Hash Table Interface
Memory Allocation Interface
Data Stack (memory pool) Interface
Finite State Machine Interface
Thread Interface
Mutual Exclusion Lock Interface
Condition Variable Interface
Atomic Operations Interface
Network (TCP and UDP) Interface
Scheduler Interface
Asynchronous Operation Interface
Abstract Stream Interface
Socket Stream Interface
File Descriptor Stream Interface
File Utility Functions
String Utility Interface
Snprintf Interface
UTF-8 String Interface
Stringprep Interface
Utility Functions
List Interface
Dynamic List Interface
MIME Interface
Time Utility Functions
Logging Interface
Config File Interface
SILC HTTP Library
SILC HTTP Server Interface
SILC HTTP PHP Translator
Resource Links
SILC Project Website
SILC Protocol Documentation
SILC White Paper
SILC FAQs

Platform Implementations
This document describes the implementation issues with different platforms that the SILC Toolkit support. Some of the supported platforms does not support all the features delivered with the Toolkit or they may behave differently from other platforms.
- Unix & Linux Implementation
- Windows Implementation
- Mac OS X Implementation
- Symbian OS Implementation
  Supported Platforms
  SILC Toolkit supports by default all Unix and Linux platforms, Windows platforms from Windows 2000 and newer, Mac OS X and Symbian OS.
  Unix Implementation
  All features and components delivered with the SILC Toolkit work on all Unix and Linux platforms. There are no special Unix platform related implementation issues with current version of SILC Toolkit.
  Windows Implementation
  By default all features and components delivered with SILC Toolkit are supported on Windows. However, there are some certain issues with the Windows version of the SILC Toolkit.
- Some of the network routines do not support IPv6.
  Mac OS X Implementation
  All features and components delivered with the SILC Toolkit work on Mac OS X platform. There are no special Mac OS X platform related implementation issues with current version of SILC Toolkit.
  Symbian OS Implementation
  Symbian OS support in SILC Toolkit is still experimental. By default all features and components delivered with SILC Toolkit are supported and should work on Symbian. However, there are some issues with the Symbian version of the SILC Toolkit of what Symbian developers need to be aware.
- The function `silc_schedule` on Symbian will allocate new Active Scheduler Waiter and will block the calling thread. The caller should allocate Active Scheduler before calling `silc_schedule`.
- When adding timeout tasks to SILC Scheduler the SILC Scheduler is woken up after the timeout task has been added. This allows adding of the timeout tasks from Symbian active objects outside the SILC Scheduler loop. On other platforms this wakeup operation is not performed.
- Adding fd task to SILC Scheduler will not schedule the fd for any operation. Instead, programmer should use SILC Socket Stream API and SILC Fd Stream API on Symbian when dealing with file descriptors and sockets. These APIs provide asynchronous notification when data is available and can be written.
- The function `silc_thread_create` on Symbian will install Active Scheduler and allocate Cleanup Stack for the new thread. The created thread always shares heap with the parent thread.

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