Re: Missing getaddrinfo on Windows 2000--almost solved

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

> > So, does _WIN32_WINNT *have* to be set to _WIN32_WINNT_WIN2K, or can
> > it be something slightly newer, like maybe _WIN32_WINNT_WIN2KSP1?
> >
> > Of course I could hack a little in6addr_any for Ncat, but if Nmap or
> > anything else using Nbase wants any of these really common IPv6
> > definitions, this will be a problem.
>
> We compile Nmap using Visual C++ 2008, and the respective runtime components
> specify Windows 2000 SP4 as a minimum requirement*, so you can probably get
> away with WIN2KSP1 (although people may still be able to compile our source
> themselves using another compiler). I'd also be surprised if many people are
> still using WIN2K RTM anywhere, but I'm sure we'll manage to annoy someone
> somewhere if we leave them out ;)

Setting it to SP4 sounds fine. The important thing is that it be set to
*something* otherwise it defaults to Vista or Longhorn.

Sorry for the trouble.

David Fifield

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