On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Ozkan Sezer wrote: >> It is mingw-w64 (http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/) where >> the provided ws2tcpip.h header doesn't include winsock2.h. >> The mingw32 header does include it, for convenience as it >> seems > > It is not "for convenience". It is for correctness. > > 20 years ago it was usual that you had to #include <sys/types.h> > before <regex.h> or similar. This was rectified in the standards > and then also in the implementations. The standard behaviour for > #include files nowadays is: > 1) Every header file can be #included by itself. > 2) When several header files are #included, the order does not > matter. > > Platforms that don't satisfy this are buggy. > > mingw-w64 is still in alpha state, as can be seen from the URL > you cited: > "The current state: It is already possible to generate > applications using these headers, libs and runtime together > with gcc-4.4 and up :-) There might be bugs here and there" > > OK, let them fix the bugs. There is no need for gnulib to work > around bugs in platforms that are in not widespread use and are in > active development. > > Can you report it to the mingw-w64 people, please? >
We changed our headers to include winsock2.h from within ws2tcpip.h as of svn rev. 2289. > Bruno > -- Ozkan
