error compiling giochannel.h in a Win64 build environment

[Rick Jones <rick jones2 hp com>]

Hi -

I'm not actually trying to compile glib source itself at the moment, but 
I am taking the 2.8.6 runtime/dev bits I've already installed and am 
trying to compile netperf4 in an IA64 build enviromment (on an XP laptop 
with the DDK installed.

The compiler is complaining about my calls to 
g_io_channel_win32_new_socket - it is saying that there is a possible 
loss of data converting from a SOCKET to a gint and refusing to generate 
an object file.  I went looking at giochannel.h and found 
g_io_channel_win32_new_socket takes a "gint socket" as its input.  I 
confirmed it is still that way in 2.10.2 giochannel.h:

/* Create an IO channel for a winsock socket. The parameter should be
 * a SOCKET. Contrary to IO channels for file descriptors (on *Win32),
 * you can use normal recv() or recvfrom() on sockets even if GLib
 * is polling them.
 */
GIOChannel *g_io_channel_win32_new_socket (gint socket);

Shouldn't that parameter be a SOCKET rather than a gint? _I_ am being a 
good little Windows programmer :) and declaring all my sockets as SOCKET 
as I'm supposed to, but the above then causes problems.  I'm guessing 
that in a 64-bit compile environment a SOCKET is a 64-bit quantity 
rather than 32.

sincerely,

rick jones