Re: Pverlay development documentation

Geoff Swan wrote:

I have a need to write an overlay (openldap-2.4.44) and wondered if there was any documentation for overlay development?

servers/slapd/slapover.txt

I have examined the sources in contrib/slapd-modules/ and was hoping to locate something a bit more descriptive and maybe any must-do's and gotchas for development.

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From a development environment perspective, is it advisable to use the

contrib/slapd-modules/ as a build location, using a Makefile based on one of the existing overlays and also the non-exposed header files (eg "portable.h") or not?

Makes no difference. Do whatever's convenient for you.