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Recently, I tried some of the newer snapshots (pre9 and 10) and these don't start on my system.

I'm using Windows 2000 (SP4).

The problem is the function "freeaddrinfo" missing from "ws2_32.dll". For systems older than XP "freeaddrinfo" is defined in "wspiapi.h" as a macro to some other function. But this header isn't included anywhere. I think the dll is used by "libxml2".

Does anybody know if I can just include it without breaking something? Or maybe use a new version of the dll?

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Sounds like some sort of common problem when it comes to libxml2. I'll have to do some research about this, but I can't make any promises at this point.

 

Maybe upgrading the libxml2 sources to the most recent version helps.

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Yes, that's expected, as the #included headers will behave differently when being compiled under Win2k, as the headers check for the existence of that symbol at compile time.

 

What I can do is to upgrade the libxml2 libraries for the Win32 build and upload a new snapshot to test for you. What I can't really do is to actually support Win2k as platform for DarkRadiant as it is an 8-year old OS by now, which I haven't available anywhere near me.

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Can you test this snapshot on your end?

 

http://72.8.59.188/TheDarkMod/DarkRadiant/...-0.9.8pre11.exe

 

I upgraded to libxml 2.7.2 and disabled its HTTP/FTP support, which was (I think) the only libxml module using the socket WS2_32.DLL. Maybe this helps, but I can't be sure that nothing else is using that socket library.

 

Am I really the only one left using 2000? :laugh:

Probably. :laugh:

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Ok, I've committed the new project files and the upgraded libxml2 sources with the disabled HTTP/FTP code. This makes linking against WS2_32.LIB unnecessary and should also decrease the number of dependencies for the application, which is a nice side effect.

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