Re: rawsock on windows

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * Daniel Jour <qnavry.bregjvt@tznvy.pbz> [2016-08-31 13:57:12 +0200]:
>
>> Fine. This means that the change necessary for a release is actually
>> quite small:
>> [snip]
>> Right?
>
> Unfortunately it's not that easy: rawsock fails to build on Windows
> (MinGW) because the gnulib code (from core CLISP) is too old and makes
> a (now) false assumption about the internals of MinGW header files.
>
> Thus, the necessary changes are:
>
> 1) Either update gnulib for core CLISP, or give rawsock its own gnulib
>    (that's what I did and - due to the reasoning above - I'd argue
>    for)
>
> 2) Remove "windows" specific code from rawsock.c: The typedef,
>    including windows headers, the parts with #if defined(WIN32_NATIVE)
>
> At this point it will compile, but has reduced functionality, because
> gnulib has a (IMHO) design flaw: If there's no (for example) netdb.h,
> then the corresponding gnulib module provides one. But it does not
> #define HAVE_NETDB_H, thus our code would not use it (because of the
> #if defined(HAVE_NETDB_H) conditional source parts).

all you need to do is "#include <netdb.h>" unconditionally.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-05/msg00338.html

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