Dave Hart wrote: > On Jan 13, 5:39 am, Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2009-01-13, Dave Hart <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Just build a binary that requires WinXP/Windows Server 2003 or >> >> The NTP Project releases The NTP Reference Implementation only as source >> code. >> >> Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> >> NTP Public Services Project -http://support.ntp.org/ > > Yes, thank you for pointing that out. That source code is typically > compiled by some kind soul into a Windows binary and distributed to > others, since Windows has the fatal flaw of lacking a C compiler in > the default installation. That binary, as a result, is run on systems > old and new across the world, sometimes running very different > versions of Windows compared to the one used by the kind soul to build > the binary. > > We are discussing how to modify the reference NTP source code so that > at runtime it can avail itself of the IPv6-aware resolver on newer > Windows systems which have it. At runtime because otherwise those > Win32 NTP binaries would fail to load at all on Wiindows NT and > Windows 2000, which do not export the IPv6 resolver from their > ws2_32.dll.
Dave, what you write hits exactly the point and I fully agree. Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
