Re: getaddrinfo: finding gethostbyname in mingw32

2006-01-27 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Unless there is a simple concrete solution to this, I'm inclined to >> install the patch below and document that people using this module >> will have to call WSAStartup manually, > > I don't know the simple concrete solution eit

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: getaddrinfo: finding gethostbyname in mingw32

2006-01-24 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon Josefsson wrote: > Unless there is a simple concrete solution to this, I'm inclined to > install the patch below and document that people using this module > will have to call WSAStartup manually, I don't know the simple concrete solution either :-), so I would do like you say. > +#define W

Re: getaddrinfo: finding gethostbyname in mingw32

2006-01-19 Thread Simon Josefsson
The follow patch make getaddrinfo work (it seems Windows has a getaddrinfo implementation, although it doesn't have gai_strerror) _except_ that applications need to initialize Windows' socket code manually, by calling WSAStartup. I'm not sure how to handle that. One solution is to create gl_getadd

Re: getaddrinfo: finding gethostbyname in mingw32

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon Josefsson wrote: > AC_SEARCH_LIBS(gethostbyname, [inet nsl]) > ... > if test "$ac_cv_search_gethostbyname" = "no"; then > save_LIBS="$LIBS" > LIBS="$LIBS -lwsock32" > AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether we need -lwsock32]) > AC_LINK_IFELSE([ > AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[ > #include Wh

Re: getaddrinfo: finding gethostbyname in mingw32

2006-01-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> My problem is getting >> AC_SEARCH_LIBS to find functions in the mingw32 libraries. It seems a >> __stdcall is required in the prototype to make it link correctly. > > The prototype with __stdcall must be contained in a public i