Am Montag, 12. Dezember 2011, 10:19:46 schrieb Andrew Dunstan:
>
> On 12/12/2011 09:54 AM, Lars Kanis wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 9. Dezember 2011, 15:31:17 schrieb Andrew Dunstan:
> >> Yeah, fair enough. I'll work on that.
> > Many thanks for reviewing, tweaking and commiting the patch!
> > One thing I wonder about, is this snippet. Is the define really needed now?
> >
> > * The Mingw64 headers choke if this is already defined - they
> > * define it themselves.
> > */
> > #if !defined(__MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR) || defined(WIN32_ONLY_COMPILER)
> > #define _WINSOCKAPI_
> > #endif
> > #include<winsock2.h>
> >
> >
> >
>
> As previously discussed, unless you can prove it's not needed I don't
> want to remove it, on the ""if it ain't broke don't fix it" principle. I
> believe it is needed for at least some older compilers (specifically
> some of those used by buildfarm animals narwhal, frogmouth, mastodon,
> hamerkop and currawong), and it doesn't appear to be hurting anything.
> As you can see above it's been disabled for all Mingw-w64 compilers.
Ok. Thanks for clarification.
Kind regards,
Lars