OK, thanks. The local declaration works just fine :) On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 10 03:19, Sam Mani wrote: >> What header should a C file include to be able to call gethostbyname2() ? > > In theory that would be netdb.h, but apparently we forgot to declare > the function there and nobody missed it so far. I applied a patch to > CVS so the declaration will be added to the next Cygwin release. > > For the time being, just declare the function in your source file, in > C++ for instance: > > extern "C" struct hostent *gethostbyname2 (const char *, int); >
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