Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Robert Riebisch wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Unfortunately Win32 binaries built from QEMU SVN don't run on Windows
>>> 2000 anymore, because of missing DLL entry points in `ws2_32.dll'.
>>>   
>>
>> Unfortunately, win2k is so old at this point, that I don't know that 
>> it's worth jumping through hoops to support.
>>
>> If someone can come up with a simple patch (with appropriately 
>> licensed code), then I'd be happy to apply it.  Otherwise, I don't 
>> think not supporting win2k as a host is a huge loss.
>>
>
> There is in fact a signed-off two-liner still in the thread:

"but it requires copyrighted file `Wspiapi.h' from MSVC2005, because 
MinGW doesn't provide such a file."

So if Wspiapi.h carries a GPL compatible license, it's fine to include.  
The patch lacks Wspiapi.h though so it'll break the build on mingw.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>>>
>>> --- qemu-sockets.c.orig    Wed Jan 14 19:34:22 2009
>>> +++ qemu-sockets.c    Mon Feb 02 22:04:42 2009
>>> @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
>>>  #include "qemu_socket.h"
>>>  #include "qemu-common.h" /* for qemu_isdigit */
>>>
>>> +#define _inline __inline /* circumvent header file issue */
>>> +#include <wspiapi.h>
>>> +
>>>  #ifndef AI_ADDRCONFIG
>>>  # define AI_ADDRCONFIG 0
>>>  #endif
>>> ***
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Robert Riebisch <rr@bttr-software.de>
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