Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/30/11:11:43
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 29 12:04, Brian Ford wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > There's no easy fix right now. We have to drop all traces of Winsock1
> > > in Cygwin and change the headers accordingly.
> >
> > Can't we just translate these based on a flag indicating what version we
> > dynamically loaded?
>
> Yes, in theory we can. But that's hell. The definitions in socket.h
> wouldn't be static values anymore, they would have to be translated
> into function calls to retrieve the right value at runtime. That's
> bound to break building applications which rely on getting constant
> values.
That wasn't what I was suggesting.
We can simply translate the current constant Winsock 1 values to Winsock 2
ones when necessary in cygwin_[set|get]sockopt. There are only 8 values
that need changing, I think.
Is winsock2_active the correct flag to indicate this case?
> Really, dropping Winsock1 entirely is the way to go. Winsock2 is
> available since Win98 and even for Win95, there's a Winsock2 available
> for free on some Microsoft web page (should be in the Cygwin mailing
> list archives somewhere).
If this is really the consensus, then ok. But, how do we maintain
backward compatibility for previously compiled apps then? Isn't that
still a goal?
> So that's the next step to do in the networking code and, Brian,
> while we're at it, some team work wouldn't hurt here. I recall
> that you have a copyright assignment in place.
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI
I don't mind doing it once I have enough of an understanding about how it
should be done. That was my original road block. I don't like wasting
time on approaches that will never be accepted on principal. I like
the concept first, code later approach.
BTW, did you understand what the following statement from
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;257460 means?
"A program that includes Ws2tcpip.h may link with either Ws2_32.lib or
Wsock32.lib. Note that Ws2tcpip.h must be explicitly included after
Winsock2.h in order to use socket options at this level."
I'm still confused on this one and it seems like an understanding of how
that is supposed to work might help us here.
Let's decide on a few more details and I'll have a go at a patch. Thanks
for your help.
--
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...
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