Re: [Pan-devel] Various problems when launching pan CVS (bis repetita)

[K. Haley]

GISQUET Christophe wrote:

> Hello,
>
> First problem is related to sockets, as stated in [1]. The compilation
> part of the problem is solved by:
> - getting the IPv6 preview for Window 2000 [2],
> - editing a bit ws2tcip.h (the function call convention is declared as
> stdcall while it seems to be cdecl in the dll),

be carefull with this one, microsoft is know to have removed the stack
size on several of the stdcall exports.  I don't know off hand if this
is the case here or not, however I haven't needed to edit ws2tcpip.h to
compile pan.

> - building an import library for wship6.dll and adding it when linking
> pan binary.
> Or simply use the patch provided which uses basic functions.
> Program starts, but it fails to fetch both:
> - a list of newsgroups, and
> - headers from a newsgroups (when the list has been retrieved by pan
> 0.4.12 for instance)

I what you're seeing is pan connecting to the server and then not
sending anything then this is the same glib bug that I've been trying to
deal with for a while now.  I just recently had enough info to post a
bug on this.  Hmm, now where did I put that ....
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309241

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