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. This document descibres these differences between platforms.
- Unix & Linux Implementation
- Windows Implementation
- Mac OS X Implementation
  Supported Platforms
  SILC Toolkit supports by default all Unix and Linux platforms, Windows platforms from Windows 98 and newer, and Mac OS X. In the future there is also plans to add support for other platforms such as Symbian OS (EPOC).
  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.
- Toolkit users should not use `silc_client_run` function to execute the Client Library. Instead the `silc_client_run_one` should be used, for example as an timer task and the Windows application's own message loop should be used as the main message loop.
- The function `silc_net_create_connection_async` is not actually asynchronous on Windows, but synchronous and it will block the process while the connection is created. This means also that the function `silc_client_connect_to_server` is not asynchronous but synchronous.
  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.