[network] #5: getAddrInfo and addrFamily not in scope on Windows GHC 6.8

[network]

#5: getAddrInfo and addrFamily not in scope on Windows GHC 6.8
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  Reporter:  igloo    |       Owner:  bos     
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  assigned
  Priority:  major    |   Milestone:          
 Component:  network  |     Version:          
Resolution:           |    Keywords:          
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Changes (by bos):

  * owner:  => bos
  * status:  new => assigned

Comment:

 This is really ugly to deal with.  I've got tentative code that ''should''
 (but doesn't) detect {{{getaddrinfo}}} on Windows properly.  Easy, right?

 The base problem is that a working version of the function wasn't
 introduced until Windows XP, but there's a cheeeezy hack for ''some''
 earlier releases that tries to find a half-working version in
 {{{wship6.dll}}} via a runtime probe.

 Gruesome details near the end of this page:
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms738520(VS.85).aspx

 Gruesome details, part deux, in this thread:
 http://readlist.com/lists/lists.sourceforge.net/mingw-users/0/1544.html

 Because autoconf goes out of its way to find a nice clean definition of a
 function, it's not even straightforward to write a correct autoconf macro
 to find {{{getaddrinfo}}} correctly on Windows. I'm trying to set the
 {{{WINVER}}} macro to {{{0x0501}}} (aka {{{WindowsXP}}}), but autoconf is
 undoing my work by deliberately doing a {{{#undef getaddrinfo}}}. It's all
 rather confusing.

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