Re: [xml] win32 getaddrinfo

[Michael Stahl <Michael Stahl Sun com>]

Roumen Petrov wrote:
> Michael Stahl wrote:
> > libxml2 2.6.31 would not build for me on win32.
> > when linking, it complained about missing getadddrinfo and freeaddrinfo 
> > functions.
> > because i have no clue when it comes to win32, i googled around, which 
> > yielded a msdn page that claimed that there are inline implementations of 
> > these functions in a certain header, resulting in the following patch.
> >
> > regards,
> > michael stahl
>
> Why <Wspiapi.h> ? Why with upper case letter ?
> Why not ws2tcpip.h ?
>
> Roumen

to quote the msdn documentation:


The freeaddrinfo function was added to the Ws2_32.dll on Windows XP and 
later.
[...]
When the Wspiapi.h include file is added, the freeaddrinfo function is 
defined to the WspiapiFreeAddrInfo inline function in the Wspiapi.h file.


so, this header should work also on NT 5.0 (win 2000) and earlier; of 
course i have not tested that :)

re: uppercase:
are you telling me that msft's documentation does not even spell their 
headers correctly? note that i have no clue when it comes to win32, so i 
assumed they would at least get _that_ right...

michael


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