#5: getAddrInfo and addrFamily not in scope on Windows GHC 6.8 ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Reporter: igloo | Owner: bos Type: defect | Status: assigned Priority: major | Milestone: Component: network | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Changes (by bos): * owner: => bos * status: new => assigned Comment: This is really ugly to deal with. I've got tentative code that ''should'' (but doesn't) detect {{{getaddrinfo}}} on Windows properly. Easy, right? The base problem is that a working version of the function wasn't introduced until Windows XP, but there's a cheeeezy hack for ''some'' earlier releases that tries to find a half-working version in {{{wship6.dll}}} via a runtime probe. Gruesome details near the end of this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms738520(VS.85).aspx Gruesome details, part deux, in this thread: http://readlist.com/lists/lists.sourceforge.net/mingw-users/0/1544.html Because autoconf goes out of its way to find a nice clean definition of a function, it's not even straightforward to write a correct autoconf macro to find {{{getaddrinfo}}} correctly on Windows. I'm trying to set the {{{WINVER}}} macro to {{{0x0501}}} (aka {{{WindowsXP}}}), but autoconf is undoing my work by deliberately doing a {{{#undef getaddrinfo}}}. It's all rather confusing. -- Ticket URL: http://trac.haskell.org/network/ticket/5#comment:1 network http://projects.haskell.org/network/ Networking-related facilities