Hi All, Just wanted to let you know of a problem I ran into trying to build vos 0.23 within mingw on windows 2000: The build chokes on libs\vos\vutil\getaddrinfowrapper.cc because of missing "getaddrinfo" "freeaddrinfo" and "getnameinfo" functions. The problem in a nutshell is that these functions don't actually exist in windows 2000's api (they first turn up in windows XP), but are supported through some sort of wrapper hack in Microsoft's official SDK, which calls the windows2000 equivalent functions when needed. However, mingw's w32api doesn't implement this wrapper function in ws2tcpip.h (there's a nice /* FIXME */ comment where it should be, though!). Here's a discussion of the problem: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14887873
This problem still exists in mingw's w32api-3.6 which appears to be the latest. Building using the visual studio project should work, as it uses Microsoft's APIs, but unfortunately I can't seem to download visual C++ express from Microsoft's server at the moment. Also, vos-win32-msvc-libs-0.23.0.zip appears to be missing from the how-to-compile-on-windows page (http://www.interreality.org/static/docs/manual-html/windows.html) I haven't ventured into the development trees yet, so as far as I know this problem may have been fixed already. But if not, I would suggest doing some autoconf magic to detect the existence of these functions, and calling the older pre-winXP versions of the functions if they don't exist. -Ken _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list vos-d@interreality.org http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
