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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:21:41 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Win2k host problem with {get,free}{addr,name}info()
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To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
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On 09/20/2010 03:03 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Blue Swirl<blauwirbel@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
>>      
>>> On 09/19/2010 11:16 AM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>
>>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> On 09/15/2010 02:11 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried to test QEMU on Win2k, but there are run time errors because
>>>>>> of missing {get,free}{addr,name}info() functions. After adding dummy
>>>>>> defines in place, there are no more errors.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I found a similar case, where a compatibility patch was proposed:
>>>>>> http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/1532
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The patch is a bit heavy, consisting of run time detection of Win2k
>>>>>> and full replacements for the functions. Are there any alternative
>>>>>> solutions? I'm by no means a Windows expert.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>> Win2k is EOL so I don't think it's useful for us to support it as a host.
>>>>>   So any type of patch is just going to add additional complexity for very
>>>>> little real gain.
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> I made a compatibility patch based on the FileZilla patch. The impact
>>>> is very low, outside of the new files added, only Makefiles are
>>>> changed.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Does gnulib have a similar replacement function?
>>>        
>> Very similar, in fact that must be the source.
>>
>>      
>>> The nice thing about gnulib is that in the long term, we could potentially
>>> use gnulib for compatibility and make sure to get updated code.
>>>        
>> One problem is that the current versions use GPLv3.
>>      
> Sorry, I made too hasty conclusions based on a few files.
> getaddrinfo.c and inet_ntop.c are both GPLv2+.
>    

Perfect, that works out very well then.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori