Fork#39766: Support gratuitous GCC dependencies
Open Date: 2019-11-15 19:44
Last Update: 2020-01-18 16:24
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Last Changes/Comment on this Ticket:
2020-01-18 16:24 Updated by: keith
Comment:
I've addressed the two issues, as noted in the ticket submission, by way of
commit #3130b13, and commit #9b6ff66.
A further issue, which arises in the Ada sockets API for GCC-9.x, is that the
getaddrinfo(), getnameinfo(), and freeaddrinfo() functions are now gratuitously
assumed to be available, where in reality, Microsoft's universally available
WS2_32.DLL didn't support them before the release of WinXP; (they were
available on Win2K, in WSHIP6.DLL, for users who had installed Win2K's IPv6
technology preview package). For earlier versions of Windows, they could be
obtained, to the extent that they are applicable for IPv4 only, by inclusion of
the supplementary <wspiapi.h> header, in addition to <ws2tcpip.h>; however,
MinGW.org lacks an implementation of any such supplementary header. I shall
work up such an implementation, to mitigate this omission.
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Ticket Status:
Reporter: keith
Owner: (None)
Type: Feature Request
Status: Open
Priority: 5 - Medium
MileStone: (None)
Component: WSL
Severity: 5 - Medium
Resolution: None
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Ticket details:
MS-Windows builds of GCC-9.x gratuitously require Microsoft's non-standard
_get_errno() and _set_errno() functions, which are not supported by MSVCRT.DLL
prior to Windows-Vista. Additionally, this same GCC version introduces a
dependency on a ftruncate64() function, which, as ftruncate() is mapped to
Microsoft's _chsize(), could be mapped to Microsoft's _chsize_s(); however,
like the two non-standard errno accessors, _chsize_s() is unsupported, without
introducing dependencies on non-free Microsoft DLLs, prior to Windows-Vista.
Such gratuitous GCC dependencies are incompatible with MinGW.org's policy of
continuing legacy support for pre-Vista Windows versions.
The attached patch offers work-arounds for each of these gratuitous GCC
dependencies, extending support to pre-Vista Windows, while still linking with
MSVCRT.DLL.
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