[zeromq-dev] Using ZeroMQ on the Windows Phone 7.1/5 Mango Platform

[Anton Yemelyanov]

Isn't ZMQ somewhat not suitable for mobile applications due to the fact
that it uses continuous polling?  i.e. resulting in potential battery
drain?  or is there an implemented or a planned method of getting around
this?

Would appreciate if someone could refresh me on this topic.

Anton

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Nick Talbot <solutions at magichat.biz> wrote:

> Hi all, I successfully integrated ZeroMQ into my new iPhone app (see it in
> action at http://www.ibuzzedfirst.com/ ), and now I'm moving on to the
> other mobile platforms, i.e. Windows Phone 7 and Android.
>
> With Windows Phone 7 however, I've hit a dead end pretty quickly, which I
> thought I would share, as I don't see a solution right now.
>
> Windows Phone 7 development is via C# and a Silverlight 4-like platform. I
> have plenty of experience in C#, WPF, and Silverlight, so I though this
> would be a cinch.
>
> But get this: Windows Phone 7 DOES NOT SUPPORT native C/C++ Libraries, or
> P/Invoke support UNLESS you are a major OEM vendor, but NOT as an
> independent developer.
>
> Even before I realised this, I hit a few problems. I tried building the
> normal ZeroMq .net clrzmq2 wrapper. I built against the earlier Windows
> Phone 7.0 platform first, only to discover that System.Net.Socket support
> isn't present in 7.0!! Actually, it turns out socket support has been added
> and is present in 7.1/5 'Mango', so more of clrzmq built, but still not all
> of it as several methods in the Marshall class implementation and others in
> the Mango 7.5 are still not supplied by Microsoft.
>
> I was going to investigate this further, but then discovered the inability
> to include custom C/C++ libraries, which tops everything.
>
> The only possible solution would be to port the entire C ZeroMQ source
> base to C#, rather than just having a C# wrapper that calls into C library
> implementation as present.
>
> Has anyone done this?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick Talbot
>
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