IPv6 on Windows

[Hrvoje Niksic]

It occurred to me that the 1.10 NEWS file declares IPv6 to be
supported.  However, as far as I know, IPv6 doesn't work under
Windows.

Though it seems that Winsock 2 (which mswindows.h is apparently trying
to support) implements IPv6, I have a nagging suspicion that just
including winsock2.h and defining HAVE_GETADDRINFO and ENABLE_IPV6
won't be enough[1].  So what does it take to support IPv6 under
Windows?

If this is not possible in the 1.10 time frame, we should probably
note in NEWS that IPv6 is still not supported under Windows.


[1]
On the other hand, the 1.7 patch available at
http://win6.jp/Wget/wget-1.7-win32-v6-20010716a-2.zip suggests exactly
that.

Re: IPv6 on Windows

[Doug Kaufman]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

 It occurred to me that the 1.10 NEWS file declares IPv6 to be
 supported.  However, as far as I know, IPv6 doesn't work under
 Windows.
 
 Though it seems that Winsock 2 (which mswindows.h is apparently trying
 to support) implements IPv6, I have a nagging suspicion that just
 including winsock2.h and defining HAVE_GETADDRINFO and ENABLE_IPV6
 won't be enough[1].  So what does it take to support IPv6 under
 Windows?

I've been working on the mingw port, using configure and the
-mno-cygwin switch under cygwin (rather than the batch file that comes
with the wget distribution). At least with the patches I made to
allow this to configure and compile, IPV6 is not supported. I may have
some time this weekend to see if I can get IPV6 working, at least for
the mingw windows port. At the moment, the patch for mingw is combined
with my DOS patch. I'll try to separate the mingw parts out, so that
mingw changes can be considered separately from the DOS changes.

   Doug
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