Re: [Mingw-users] Re: DNS SRV query

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Tor Lillqvist <tm...@ik...>:

> Cesc writes:
> > Yes, and in this page says that client support is for xp, 2k, nt,
> > 98 and 95...
>
> This is probably because the Microsoft-supplied headers in the
> Platform SDK contain code for a wrapper implementation that works on
> older OSes, too. getaddrinfo is present in ws2_32.dll only on XP and
> later. (There is nothing similar in the corresponding mingw header.)
>

I remember ws2_32.dll being available for w98; so I think Tor may be 
confused about something.  It may have been a required download but it 
was available.

Earnie Boyd

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