Windows Interop

[Howard Chu]

Sifting back thru this thread...

Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> Windows does have a SASL API.  It's layered on top of the SSPI, and 
> msdn documents the calls themselves.  I would assume that they work, 
> at least for email clients.

My copy of the Platform SDK (2003 SP1 edition) says these functions are 
only available on Windows Server 2000 and Server 2003. Doesn't seem 
worthwhile to spend much time on it with such limited applicability.
>
> The Cyrus SASL source distribution has a directory tree under "java" 
> that has some test code, that I presume is a basis for understanding 
> Java API.  The Cyrus SASL source distribution has a directory tree 
> under "win32" that contains essentially nothing.  I count three files 
> and 18 directories.

Looks like that subtree is for MSVC and hasn't been touched since 2002.  
Not very interesting since autoconf works fine here using MSYS.

> Anybody got any information or examples or pointers at all on using 
> the Windows API?  I don't find anything google'ing for the routine 
> names, except people as confused as we are.
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