Re: GTK on Windows 2000 pro, sp4

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> > You should probably open[1] a bug report about this if you wish to see it
> > fixed...

That's now done.

> If the use of freeaddrinfo() (and possibly other API not present in
> Windows 2000) can be easily made conditional at run-time (i.e. look up
> the function and use it only if there, otherwise some workaround),
> then that could be done.
>
> But if it would require large changes then I am afraid we will just
> have to consider GLib 2.22 being unsupported on Windows 2000 then, and
> known not to work.
>
> (The Windows SDK header wspiapi.h has an inline implementation of
> freeaddrinfo() so that code can be compiled to build also on Windows
> 2000, but the mingw headers haven't, and the GLib distributed from
> ftp.gnome.org is compiled with mingw. I don't think it would be OK to
> just copy the inline implementation from the SDK headers, although
> some other projects do that.)

I think the fix would be trivial if it were OK to use the MS
header wspiapi.h, but perhaps non-trivial otherwise.  The mingw
header ws2tcpip.h has a section:

#if (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0501)
[ give prototypes for freeaddrinfo et al. ]
#else
/* FIXME: Need WS protocol-independent API helpers.  */
#endif

Allin Cottrell