[Pan-devel] Problems with GNET2 for win32. [ compiling pan on win32]

[Rudi Pittman]

I've run into the same problem mentioned below trying to compile gnet
under win32..specifically the dnslookup will fail...post follows:

RE: [Pan-devel] RE: Problems setting up to build Pan on Windows...
From:   Paul Hudson
Subject:        RE: [Pan-devel] RE: Problems setting up to build Pan on
Windows...
Date:   Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:05:05 -0000
Thanks.
>> The "sanity check" for Gnet fails. I don't know what the problem 
is,though.
>> Has anyone successfully built from the current CVS HEAD for Gnet?

> Check config.log, the configure.in (or configure.ac) or in general 
provide
more details than just "fails".  :)

Sorry, I meant the examples/dnslookup.exe test fails. The make "works".
The
example is no more informative than that :(

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A possible solution is offered in this post:
http://lists.gnetlibrary.org/pipermail/gnet/2004-February/000287.html
[gnet] GNET2 with Mingw
Stephane Rouleau srouleau at innobec.com
Sun Feb 29 23:02:11 EST 2004

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Good day,

I've decided to compile 'Pan' for Win32 using Mingw, as outlined at
http://pan.rebelbase.com/pan-windows-port.txt.  Here's the
GNET2-relevant information from the file:

2.5 GNET
========
+ Pan needs GNet to run.
* There's better support for mingw building after 2.0.4.
 As of this writing 2.0.4 is the latest release, so this means using CVS
 HEAD for now.
* remove the echoclient-unix and echoserver-unix lines from
./examples/Makefile.am
* remove from configure.ac the lines about adding extra warning flags to
CFLAGS if the compiler is gcc.
* ./configure --disable-pthreads --prefix=/opt/gnet2;
* add "-lws2_32" after -liconv in examples/Makefile
* make; make install
* edit /opt/gnet2/lib/pkgconfig/gnet-2.0.pc:
 Add " -lws2_32 " to the end of the "Libs:" line.
* Sanity check: "$ examples/dnslookup.exe www.google.com" should work at
this point.
* Sanity check: "$ pkg-config --libs gnet-2.0" should work, and should
include -lws2_32

As far as I can tell, there's nothing major here.  The only problem was
that the dnslookup.exe was failing, as well as Pan
naturally.  I've traced it to WSAStartup() not being called (even though
it's in DllMain in gnet-private.c).  I've patched my
version so gnet_init() calls it (which, to me, appears to make more sense
in case someone links with GNET2 statically).

I've compiled from the snapshot available at
http://www.gnetlibrary.org/snapshot/gnet040217.tar.gz.

I probably did something wrong in my setup, hence the required patch.
Any thoughts?

Stephane Rouleau

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Ok...so what exactly do I need to do to "have gnet_init() call
WSAStartup()"  ????

Rudi