Hi First of all, yet_another_shy_lurker++;
> On cygwin, the final link fails with the following error:- > > gcc -o parrot.exe -s -L/usr/local/lib -g imcc/main.o > blib/lib/libparrot.a -lcrypt > blib/lib/libparrot.a(io_unix.o)(.text+0x87e): In function > `PIO_sockaddr_in': /home/Jonathan/parrot_test/io/io_unix.c:468: > undefined reference to `_inet_pton' I had that problem when i tried to compile parrot on one of our school machines(cygwin). inet_pton is an addressfamily independent version of inet_aton that works with normal ip adresses aswell as ipv6 adresses, but is mostly only defined on machines that support ipv6. > inet_pton has not yet been implemented in cygwin, but it is being > worked on... > http://win6.jp/Cygwin/ Indeed, but I think there might be other unix-like environments that (do not yet|will never) provide the inet_pton function. So I tried to add a inet_pton implementation for the cases where the platform does not provide it. Apache 2.0 goes that way, http://lxr.webperf.org/source.cgi/srclib/apr/network_io/unix/inet_pton.c I alread managed to adapt that piece of source slightly so that it compiles during the parrot build process. Now I'm trying to understand parrots configuration system in order to compile this only if there is no inet_pton defined. But then, im only a shy_lurker so this might take some time... Thomas
