On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> On 09/15/2010 02:11 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to test QEMU on Win2k, but there are run time errors because
>> of missing {get,free}{addr,name}info() functions. After adding dummy
>> defines in place, there are no more errors.
>>
>> I found a similar case, where a compatibility patch was proposed:
>> http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/1532
>>
>> The patch is a bit heavy, consisting of run time detection of Win2k
>> and full replacements for the functions. Are there any alternative
>> solutions? I'm by no means a Windows expert.
>>
>
> Win2k is EOL so I don't think it's useful for us to support it as a host.
> So any type of patch is just going to add additional complexity for very
> little real gain.I made a compatibility patch based on the FileZilla patch. The impact is very low, outside of the new files added, only Makefiles are changed. With the patch I was able to run QEMU with network connectivity on Win2k. Also the tools work, they also seem to depend on getaddrinfo & co. Makefile | 6 Makefile.objs | 3 Makefile.target | 1 net/getaddrinfo.c | 413 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/getaddrinfo.h | 121 +++++++++++++++ net/inet_ntop.c | 237 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/inet_ntop.h | 47 ++++++ 7 files changed, 825 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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