On 30-Sep-99 Edmund Mergl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in the last few days I compiled libpq on Windows NT
> using MS Visual Studio 6.0. I followed the instructions
> given by Bob Kline <bkline@rksystems.com> in his mail from
> Fri, 3 Sep 1999.
> Unfortuanetely he sent his mail only to dbi-users, so I would
> like to repeat one major problem on this list.
>
> Here is an excerpt from his mail:
>
> 4. The DllMain function in src/interfaces/libpq/libpqdll.c of the
> PostgreSQL 6.5 sources, in which WSAStartup is invoked, is never called,
> which causes gethostbyname calls to fail. Solution (more properly,
> "kludge" -- I know there's a cleaner fix somewhere, but this works for
> now): immediately after the local declarations for the connectDB function
> in src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c:
>
>#ifdef WIN32
> static int WeHaveCalledWSAStartup;
>
> if (!WeHaveCalledWSAStartup) {
> WSADATA wsaData;
> if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(1, 1), &wsaData)) {
> sprintf(conn->errorMessage,
> "WSAStartup failed: errno=%d\n", h_errno);
> goto connect_errReturn;
> }
> WeHaveCalledWSAStartup = 1;
> }
>#endif
You need not to take care wether WSAStartup is alredy called or not.
Windows handle it automatically.
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