[getdns-api] Dependencies with getdns

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014, Marc Groeneweg wrote:

> I am happy and pleased to see an effort being done to get a DNS API with inclusion of DNSSEC. In the past I have put some effort in showing the world, that it is possible to get
> DNSSEC support within an iOS app. This effort is cumbersome to maintain, ‘cause it uses components like OpenSSL, libldns and libunbound.
> 
> With the public release of getdns 0.1.0 I was excited to see what it is, and found out that it uses the same dependencies I found cumbersome to maintain on iOS. Especially the
> build process for libunbound involves direct compilation with ldns for any given architecture for iOS (and there are normally at least 2: i386 based simulator, and one of the ARM
> architectures). I would like to get static libraries for each dependency and link to these libraries for each architecture. I assume it is my own shortcoming I cannot achieve
> this, but I would like to address this one before I go ahead, and try to get getdns on any iOS device.

unbound-1.4.22 will no longer require ldns.

Paul