From: "Seiler Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > First of all, > yet_another_shy_lurker++; Welcome. :-)
> > 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 > This was the kinda solution I had in mind, but my network programming knowledge is way under par. > 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. > You may want to take a look at config/auto/memalign.pl, which I believe is one of a number of scripts that generates a c file and attempts to compile it, then does something based upon the success of that attempt. > But then, im only a shy_lurker so this might take some time... > Thanks for having a crack at it. Jonathan
