A small patch to compile on MingW.
I assume the nameser.h file isn't used for Cygwin, so the
"struct timezone" should be required for every other Win32 target
(which doesn't have this struct).

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diff -u3 -H -B -w c-ares-1.0.0\ahost.c .\ahost.c
--- c-ares-1.0.0\ahost.c Mon Feb 02 23:58:16 2004
+++ .\ahost.c Fri Feb 06 01:05:35 2004
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
   WSAStartup(wVersionRequested, &wsaData);
 #endif

- if (argc == 0)
+ if (argc <= 1)
     usage();

   status = ares_init(&channel);

diff -u3 -H -B -w c-ares-1.0.0\nameser.h .\nameser.h
--- c-ares-1.0.0\nameser.h Sun Jan 04 13:17:29 2004
+++ .\nameser.h Fri Feb 06 01:04:11 2004
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@

 #define getpid() _getpid()

+struct timezone { int dummy; };
+
 int strcasecmp(const char *a, const char *b);
 int ares_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz);
 #define gettimeofday(tv,tz) ares_gettimeofday(tv,tz)

diff -u3 -H -B -w c-ares-1.0.0\windows_port.c .\windows_port.c
--- c-ares-1.0.0\windows_port.c Sun Jan 04 13:17:41 2004
+++ .\windows_port.c Wed Feb 11 11:00:42 2004
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@

 #include "nameser.h"

+#ifndef __MINGW32__
 int
 strncasecmp(const char *a, const char *b, size_t n)
 {
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@
 {
     return strncasecmp(a, b, strlen(a)+1);
 }
+#endif

 int
 ares_gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz)

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--gv
Received on 2004-03-08