Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU SVN on Windows 2000 :-(

[Avi Kivity]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Robert Riebisch wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Unfortunately Win32 binaries built from QEMU SVN don't run on Windows
> > 2000 anymore, because of missing DLL entry points in `ws2_32.dll'.
> >   
>
> Unfortunately, win2k is so old at this point, that I don't know that 
> it's worth jumping through hoops to support.
>
> If someone can come up with a simple patch (with appropriately 
> licensed code), then I'd be happy to apply it.  Otherwise, I don't 
> think not supporting win2k as a host is a huge loss.

There is in fact a signed-off two-liner still in the thread:

> > --- qemu-sockets.c.orig    Wed Jan 14 19:34:22 2009
> > +++ qemu-sockets.c    Mon Feb 02 22:04:42 2009
> > @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
> >  #include "qemu_socket.h"
> >  #include "qemu-common.h" /* for qemu_isdigit */
> >
> > +#define _inline __inline /* circumvent header file issue */
> > +#include <wspiapi.h>
> > +
> >  #ifndef AI_ADDRCONFIG
> >  # define AI_ADDRCONFIG 0
> >  #endif
> > ***
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Riebisch <address@hidden>


--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.