I managed to build it with MSVC after tinkering with the code a little. Did you guys make any progress in making tor a library? It seems like I can directly call functions like handle_getinfo_helper in control.c to control tor.

//application_main.cpp

//Application that starts tor in a new thread in the same process

#include <future>

#include <iostream>

#include "libtor.h"

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){

auto tor_return=async(launch::async,start_tor_main,argc, argv);

while (tor_return.wait_for(chrono::seconds(2))!=future_status::ready){

char *ans;

const char *errmsg;

handle_getinfo_helper(NULL, "config/names", &ans, &errmsg);

cout<<"application is running! ["<<ans<<"]"<<endl;

}

return tor_return.get();

}

//libtor.h

//Duplicates the definitions in Tor. If there is a way around this, do tell! :)

extern "C"{

int start_tor_main(int argc, char *argv[]);//Tor's main() is renamed to start_tor_main

int

handle_getinfo_helper(void *control_conn,

const char *question, char **answer,

const char **err_out);

}

It seems like handle_getinfo_helper is called asynchronously by tor whenever a GETINFO is recieved on the control port so I don't need locking/synchronization. Can someone confirm this?

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:40 AM, Gisle Vanem <gvanem@broadpark.no> wrote:

I didn't read the original messege on this, but you have problem building Tor and it's libs using MSVC? If so,
you could try my "GNU make" based system for MingW +
MSVC here:
http://home.broadpark.no/~gvanem/misc/#tor
http://home.broadpark.no/~gvanem/misc/tor-windows.zip

I just tested it with today's Tor Git-repo. And it works for me.

--gv