Re: Removing dependency to wsock32.lib when compiling code on WIndows

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 01:58:17PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Somehow or other, we must bring these parts into agreement.
>
>
> It is interesting to see that with MinGW-32b getaddrinfo is still set
> to no at configure phase. What if we simply wrap "undef gai_strerror"
> like in the patch attached? I just set up an environment with MinGW-64
> and I was able to build the code (tested as well with MinGW-32 btw).

It's easy to devise something that fixes the build. What is the right fix,
and why?

Note that MinGW-w64 is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit. It is a fork of
MinGW, which is always 32-bit. I experienced the problem with 64-bit
MinGW-w64; I don't know how 32-bit MinGW-w64 compares.

> Another idea would be to enforce getaddrinfo to no at configure for
> MinGW environments.

Consistency with the MSVC build is desirable, either HAVE_GETADDRINFO for both
or !HAVE_GETADDRINFO for both.

nm

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