Hi

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GHC currently works on (allegedly) NT4 and later.

Are the prepackaged binaries built on NT4 too? I found a way to get getaddrinfo detected it works properly (which somewhat shocked me), but I have no way to test it on obsolete Windows releases.

If there is an NT4 machine connected to the internet, you can be reasonably sure it's now part of a zombie net, so I wouldn't worry. I have Windows 2000, XP and Vista in the house. If you send me a fairly simple test, I'll run it and see what happens. Thanks Neil

On 13/05/2009 17:05, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Simon Marlow mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com> wrote:

One option is to check for its existence at runtime. Take a look at

http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/directory/cbits/directory.c

for an example of somewhere else we do this.

GHC currently works on (allegedly) NT4 and later.

Are the prepackaged binaries built on NT4 too? I found a way to get getaddrinfo detected it works properly (which somewhat shocked me), but I have no way to test it on obsolete Windows releases.

I can write a DLL-based shim that will look in ws2_32.dll first, then the older IPv6 preview code in wship6.dll, and if neither one is present, it will simply fail. If I do that, do you have a way to test it on, say, Windows 2000 or 2003 Server or such?

Yep, we use 2003 Server to build all our Windows bundles. Cheers, Simon