I have not tried this method yet. I'll try it on Monday and let you
know the results. Certainly something that is easy, and I can
document if it does indeed fix the problem.

Casey

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:32:33 +0200, Guenter Knauf <eflash_at_gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi Casey,
> have you also tried what Gisle suggested below?
> I've somehow missed to read Gisle's post until now, but I think that's a better approach than my suggestion since you dont have to define an additional var - if that works for you...
>
> Guenter.
>
> --- multi.h.orig Wed Mar 24 23:53:42 2004
> +++ multi.h Fri Sep 03 19:26:22 2004
> @@ -52,7 +52,9 @@
> #endif
>
> #if defined(WIN32) && !defined(__GNUC__) || defined(__MINGW32__)
> +#if !(defined(_WINSOCKAPI_) || defined(_WINSOCK_H))
> #include <winsock2.h>
> +#endif
> #else
>
> /* HP-UX systems version 9, 10 and 11 lack sys/select.h and so does oldish
>
>
> > "Casey ODonnell" <caseyodonnell_at_gmail.com> said:
>
> >> Let me know what your thoughts are, and if there are good ways to
> >> reconcile Winsock and Winsock2...
>
> > Carefully reorder your headers and/or define _WINSOCKAPI_ in
> > your CFLAGS.
>
> > MingW's <winsock2.h> has this at top:
> > #define _WINSOCK_H /* to prevent later inclusion of winsock.h */
>
> > Microsoft in their SDK where not so smart to foresee this problem.
> > <multi.h> could probably do something like:
>
> > #if !defined(_WINSOCKAPI_) && !defined(_WINSOCK_H)
> > #include <winsock2.h>
> > #endif
>
> > Do you provide a patch?
>
> > But, winsock2.h is only needed for the definition of fd_set.
> > So those args could just as well be 'void *' to avoid this problem.
> > Anything can be converted to 'void *' without a cast in C, right?
>
> > --gv
>
>

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