Rob Richards wrote:
> Michael Stahl wrote:
>> Rob Richards wrote:
>>   
>>>>       
> </snip>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> I think I finally understand what you are trying to do. You are building 
>>> on Win 2003 with VS 2005 and then trying to use the lib on on Win2K or 
>>> lower and it is there that it is failing to link?
>>>     
>> well, it fails to link with vs 2005 already because libxml (using 2.6.31 
>> here) is not linked against ws2_32.dll, so ld (or whatever msft calls its 
>> equivalent) complained that getaddrinfo and freeaddrinfo are undefined 
>> symbols.
>>   
> I get it now and thought that was only an issue with VS 2008. Can you 
> try building from SVN or even a snapshot. The lib was added just after 
> the .31 release.

ok, i have built a snapshot (downloaded friday iirc). building works, and 
the dll is linked against ws2_32.dll.

>>> Can you try the following patch?
>>> Index: wsockcompat.h
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- wsockcompat.h    (revision 3721)
>>> +++ wsockcompat.h    (working copy)
>>> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
>>>  
>>>  /* Check if ws2tcpip.h is a recent version which provides getaddrinfo() */
>>>  #if defined(GetAddrInfo)
>>> +#include <wspiapi.h>
>>>  #define HAVE_GETADDRINFO
>>>  #endif
>>>  #endif
>>>     
>> ah yes, that seems to work fine here, and is obviously the cleaner way to 
>> do it.
>>   
> If the build from SVN fixes the initial problem, can you try using it on 
> w Win2K machine? It's possible that the patch might not be needed though 
> after more research I have doubts. I'm looking around here for an old OS 
> to test on as well. I'm pretty sure I have an old VM image lying around 
> here somewhere.

so today i finally got access to a win2k machine. the result:
with 2.6.31+my patch, the application runs.
with the snapshot, the application fails to run, and displays a message 
box complaining that ws2_32.dll could not be found.

so, i would suggest you revert the patch that introduced linking to 
ws2_32.dll, and use wspapi.h instead.

regards
michael

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