Re: MinGW gai_strerror conflict

[Yoann Vandoorselaere]

Le mercredi 17 janvier 2007 à 14:50 +0100, Simon Josefsson a écrit :
> Yoann Vandoorselaere <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Le mercredi 17 janvier 2007 à 13:57 +0100, Simon Josefsson a écrit :
> >> Yoann Vandoorselaere <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> >> I'm not sure how to handle this.  Declaring the function doesn't seem
> >> like a solution, since it will still collide with their definition (we
> >> use 'const' and they don't, and they add 'WSAAPI', but the last part
> >> may not matter).
> >
> > We could use a replacement function:
> >
> > #undef gai_strerror
> > #define gai_strerror rpl_gai_strerror
> >
> > Shouldn't we?
> 
> Hm, yes, that might work.
> 
> >> However, perhaps the error is that getaddrinfo/gai_strerror is built
> >> at all on your system.  mingw32 appear to have working getaddrinfo, so
> >> we shouldn't need to build anything.
> >
> > getaddrinfo() seem to be working (and the module handle that part fine),
> > but there is no gai_strerror() symbol available, which is a requirement
> > in an environment using getaddrinfo(), thus we should compile the
> > replacement function.
> 
> Ah, I remember, it happened for Windows 2000 if I remember correctly.
> 
> I don't have time to work on a solution here, but if you come up with
> anything, we can commit it and let the build bot test it. :)

Would the attached patch be acceptable?

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