On Jan 13, 5:39 am, Steve Kostecke <koste...@ntp.org> wrote: > On 2009-01-13, Dave Hart <daveh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Just build a binary that requires WinXP/Windows Server 2003 or > > The NTP Project releases The NTP Reference Implementation only as source > code. > > Steve Kostecke <koste...@ntp.org> > NTP Public Services Project -http://support.ntp.org/
Yes, thank you for pointing that out. That source code is typically compiled by some kind soul into a Windows binary and distributed to others, since Windows has the fatal flaw of lacking a C compiler in the default installation. That binary, as a result, is run on systems old and new across the world, sometimes running very different versions of Windows compared to the one used by the kind soul to build the binary. We are discussing how to modify the reference NTP source code so that at runtime it can avail itself of the IPv6-aware resolver on newer Windows systems which have it. At runtime because otherwise those Win32 NTP binaries would fail to load at all on Wiindows NT and Windows 2000, which do not export the IPv6 resolver from their ws2_32.dll. Cheers, Dave Hart _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
