On 27 Jul 2012, at 16:37, Geoff McLane wrote:

> For a long, LONG time the small utility program 
> metar.exe has failed to work in windows...
> 
> It turns out WSAStartup() is NOT called, thus the 
> HTTP request always fails...
> 
> Applied this simple patch below, and all is 
> well ;=))
> 
> Hope this can get into fg git, and I hope pushed 
> to Release/2.8.0 as well, and thus get into 
> the next fgrun release 2.8 windows install...

There's an even simpler fix: call:

         int simgear::Socket::initSockets()

Which does whatever platform-specific socket initialisation is required.

James


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