Sorry for the slow response. My 100% Up-All-The-Time Fibre-Optic connection
decided to choke yesterday and I ended up spending all day catching up on
computer maintenance instead of doing software development. Imagine that -
a 268 PC farm and we've got to fix 1 or 2 from time to time :)

I'm not sure exactly what I'm reading in the attached log, but it looks to
me like the configure script isn't checking for libws2_32 when it checks for
socket support. I assume that's why it's checking for gethostbyname,
anyways. If anybody knows how to add libws2_32 to the list of libraries
that configure checks, I'd be willing to bet we'd be one step closer to
supporting ./configure && make && make install for MinGW.

NOTE: I scrubbed the following items in the log for privacy reasons:

  * hostname
  * PATH entries below MinGW (the stuff it inherits from windows)
  * Intermediate directories between X:/ and curl.

I don't believe anything there could affect the results of the configure,
but thought I would point out the differences between what you're seeing and
what ./configure actually spit out.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.curl.library
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: [REPOST] buildconf for Windows?

> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Early Ehlinger wrote:
>
> > When using MSYS, it's *very close* to working already.
>
> Hey, this looks nice!
>
> > checking for gethostbyname... no
> > checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... no
> > checking for gethostbyname... (cached) no
> > checking for gethostbyname in -lsocket... no
> > checking trying both nsl and socket libs... no
> >
> > $ cat configure.err.log
> > configure: error: couldn't find libraries for gethostbyname()
>
> Hm, weird. I thought it didn't require any libs at all for
gethostbyname().
>
> Do you get a config.log file that shows how this test is made (and
what/how it
> fails)?
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
>
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