Re: [xml] win32 getaddrinfo

[Rob Richards <rrichards ctindustries net>]

Michael Stahl wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 10:23:56AM +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
> >     
> > > Roumen Petrov wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >       
> > the question is how do you detect that 
> > + #include <Wspiapi.h> /* for getaddrinfo, freeaddrinfo */                    
> > is actually available ? What about older version, WinCE ...
> > I guess this need some expert review (I'm not one for any Win stuff !)
> >     
>
> me neither, i just quote msdn :)
>
>
> Header  
> Declared in Ws2tcpip.h on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows 
> Server 2003, and Windows XP.
> Declared in Ws2tcpip.h on Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows Me/98/95; 
> include Wspiapi.h.
>
>
> so, it says nothing about wince, but everything else from msft seems to 
> have it.
>
>
>   
What are you compiling with? The use of getaddrinfo actually came about 
due to an issue with win98.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317431

I'm curious to know how HAVE_GETADDRINFO ended up getting defined.

Rob