Re: [Mingw-users] Undefined reference to 'getaddrinfo'

[James S. <jam...@op...>]

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 15:26 +1000, James Steward wrote:

> In the ws2tcpip.h I see
> #if (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0501)
> 
> ---declaration of getaddrinfo
> 
> #else
> /* FIXME ...

I think I've just answered my own question.

I added 
#define _WIN32_WINNT  0x501
to the very top of the file and it seems to compile and run!

Was this the right thing to do?  I didn't see this documented in the
MSDN help - but that's not saying much :)

Cheers,
JS.