Re: Bootstrap failed during compile of process.c

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:31:44 +0100
>>From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
>>Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>>
>>I no very little about network programming. I searched a bit in the 
>>files and here is what I found:
>>
>>I looked in the header files for MinGW5 and sockaddr_in6 is found in 
>>ws2tcpip.h. This is consistent with
>>
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>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winsock/winsock/sockaddr_2.asp
>>
>>Where should ws2tcpip.h be included? Or should it currently?
>>    
>>
>
>I don't know, and I have no time to look into the intricacies of using
>winsock in the w32 port (in particular, src/s/ms-w32.h makes a point
>of forcing windows.h not to include winsock.h, for some undisclosed
>reason, and the build uses winsock.h, which is incompatible with
>ws2tcpip.h, instead of winsock2.h).
>  
>
I saw some pages saying that winsock2.h must be included before 
windows.h. Maybe that is the reason?

>So I simply disabled IPv6 support for the w32 build, for now.  (FWIW,
>I think it was a mistake to introduce it so close to a release for
>other platforms as well, but that's history now.)
>
Ok, thanks.

This however reminds me of the problem with emacsserver/client that does 
not work yet on w32. In gnuserver/client (which works) windows2.h is 
used. Is there maybe some compatibility reason to use windows2.h?