On 9/22/05, Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mingw32 doesn't have sys/types.h, arpa/inet.h or netinet/in.h. But if > you include winsock2.h instead of those three header files, most (?) > POSIX socket functions work.
I doubt that any POSIX socket functions in winsock2 will conform to the specification, or even reasonably reliably be useful. There are a number of gotchas that need to be considered. e.g. errno is not set. plibc is a very good POSIX compatibility library for mingw, and as an example, here is the select implementation: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/plibc/plibc/src/select.c?view=markup Existing modules inet_ntop, getaddrinfo and poll, and any module that depends on those (canon-host?), appear to use these headers, but only a small part of the socket implementation is needed; supporting those modules on Window sounds like a good start. > Perhaps this should be considered a mingw32 bug instead? Problem is > this mingw32 cross compiler will likely be around for a while, since > it is shipped with the latest Debian release.. So it might be useful > to support even if it is broken. MinGW does not consider this a bug because it aims to provide a complete and compatible Win32 API, in order that programmers can interchange MSVC and MinGW. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=112472681900001&r=1&w=2 -- John _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
