Re: [Pio-temporary] Re: pioneers support for getaddrinfo on cygwin

[Scott O. <sco...@gm...>]

Roland Clobus wrote:

>On Monday 19 September 2005 02:16, you wrote:
>
>I'm replying also to the mailing-list, so more people can read it.
>For Cygwin there is limited network support. The client worked the 
>last time I checked (the server not yet).
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Good point, I hadn't realized that the client  was functioning correctly 
without the fix.  You may just want to leave the server code alone until 
some cygwin lib package is released with minimal rfc2553 support.  If 
someone wants a working cygwin based server, they could just ask for a 
little help...

When I was going through the last gnocatan source code prior to finding 
the latest version of pioneers, I only saw a few references to 
getaddrinfo, freeaddrinfo, and maybe one or two more. 

BTW - Thanks for creating the README.cygwin notes!  It saved me a bunch 
of time trying to build gtk+, etc. on my RH9 box after not finding any 
appropriate rpms.

Scott

>So I now have 3 options:
>* Use a quick fix, and mix licenses
>* Use Winsock directly
>* Use older IPv4 only functions
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It seems that the ideal option is always limited by know-how, and free 
time:)  Despite my distaste for win32 apis and #defs.

>I prefer the last option, or else as little as possible dependance on 
>Winsock, except of course when the code from openssh could be used 
>instead.
>
>Regards,
>Roland Clobus
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