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Re: libcurl on Windows 2000

From: <kcirtap_at_lavabit.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:02:05 -0400 (EDT)

> I have a user who has Windows 2000 and says they're getting a Win32 error
> message when running my program, that says "freeaddrinfo not found in
> ws2_32.dll".
>
> Unfortunately I don't have a Windows 2000 box to test this on. I just want
> to verify that libcurl runs on Windows 2000 properly? The problem is
> either with libcurl or GTK+ so I'm just trying to figure out which one it
> is.
>
> Note that I found the following MSDN page:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737931(VS.85).aspx
>
> Under "Remarks" it says "The freeaddrinfo function was added to the
> Ws2_32.dll on Windows XP and later. To execute an application using this
> function on earlier versions of Windows (Windows 2000, Windows NT, and
> Windows Me/98/95), then you must include the Ws2tcpip.h file and also
> include the Wspiapi.h file."
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>

You can disregard. Looks like the issue is with GLib.

Patrick

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