Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Building network package on Windows

Hi, As Thomas pointed out, it is not clear if this is a bug, or if there is something confused between the different versions of Windows and MinGW (or I just did something wrong) but I'll make a ticket so that we can track the issue. I am by no means a Windows developer but I would be happy to try out fixes/ideas on my Windows machine as I think that it is important that we have as good support for Windows as we do on the various Unix-like systems. -Iavor On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Iavor Diatchki wrote:

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Here is an update, in case anyone else runs into the same problem.

Thanks for following up. I wrote the code that performs that check, but unfortunately I don't have access to all of the permutations of Windows that are out there, so my ability to test is rather limited. I'm sorry for the trouble it caused you. Perhaps Vista Home Basic doesn't have IPv6 support? If that conjecture is true, I'm not sure how I'd have found it out :-( More likely, the name mangling is going wrong.

As for your point that the network package exhibits different APIs depending on the underlying system, that's true, but it's hard to avoid. Writing a compatibility API for systems that don't have functioning IPv6 APIs is a chunk of boring work, and I had thought that such systems were rare.

Anyway, please do file a bug, and we'll take the discussion of how to reproduce and fix your problem there.

Thanks, Bryan.