Geoff, your patch is asking for the quirky old win95-era winsock1.1.
Is this intentional? WSACancelBlockingCall and friends don't exist in
modern winsock.

-- Chris

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Geoff McLane <ubu...@geoffair.info> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 17:39 +0100, James Turner wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Hi James,
>
> Just as my patch does... SAME code except
> for the throw sg_exception() ;=))
>
> So 6 to one, and half dozen to the other...
>
> Just hope one of them gets pushed ;=))
>
> Regards,
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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