Re: [Mingw-users] netdb.h and other includes...

[Richard T. <rtroy@ScienceTools.com>]

> I agree with you that there is no 'netdb.h' in the mingw-stuff.
> 
> What for declarations are in netdb.h ?

Hi Georg,

All I want from netdb.h is to call gethostname(). Apparently it defines,
among other things I'm unaware of, the struct hostent used by gethostname().
For more see:

http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.0.6/html_chapter/libc_11.html#SEC191

RT

> > I've got a working installation of gcc-2.95.2 on a windows 98 box, along
> > with i386-mingw32 - a fairly recent installation. Up to now, I've done all
> > of my development on Linux and have just copied the source over and
> > compiled it. Some of my programs work fine - I just run make and that's
> > it.
> > 
> > Compilation of one of my programs fails because it includes netdb.h and
> > neither it nor I can find netdb.h on my windows system. I do find several
> > on my Linux system, of course. I suspect that there will be other includes
> > I'll stumble across needing too...
> > 
> > I searched the mail list archives without result, but maybe because I
> > didn't know what to search on. I presume I can't just move over one of the
> > netdb.h files from my linux system, or is that OK? Is there a downloadable
> > library of more includes? Did I make a mistake using mingw32 (meaning, is
> > there another package I should have used instead)?
> > 
> > Please advise!
> > 
> > RT
> > 
> > P.S. I also enjoyed reading up on c and java interaction - did I interpret
> > what I was reading correctly: I can call my Java code from C or C code
> > from my Java? ...Calling C routines from Java would be VERY useful for me!
> > Also, if someone can point me at a good source of concise reading on
> > cross-compiling with Gnu C, I'd appreciate it.
> > R
> > 
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