[tor-bugs] #2612 [Vidalia]: Add support for Win2k

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#2612: Add support for Win2k
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 Reporter:  chiiph       |          Owner:  chiiph      
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  needs_review
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:              
Component:  Vidalia      |        Version:              
 Keywords:               |         Parent:              
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Comment(by chiiph):

 Replying to [comment:4 edmanm]:
 > What function in what header?

 getnameinfo (and may be others that got inlined when including the header
 file).

 > And ship what header with what inline? If you're talking about shipping
 `wspiapi.h` from the Windows SDK in Vidalia's source tree, I think that's
 a non-starter. The EULA you click through when installing the SDK sure
 doesn't seem to permit that.

 No, the header file will just be compiled in as a dependency, not shipped
 with Vidalia's source tree.

 > If there's something in a miniupnpc file that needs to be tweaked to
 respect the `-DNO_GETADDRINFO` flag or avoid some other function that
 doesn't exist on Win2K, why not just do that?

 The macro is GETHOSTBYNAME, but there are a couple of calls that don't use
 that (and it isn't used in the getnameinfo call either). The code in
 miniupnpc is really ugly, and the developer already told me: "that needs
 to be fixed... I think you can make it :)" (literaly). So, I'm not a real
 fun of hacking the lib to make this work.

 >
 > I agree that most Windows users don't build Vidalia from source, but why
 should we make life harder for those poor suckers that do? Vidalia is
 still relatively easy to build for Windows users and I'd sure like to keep
 it that way if possible.

 I can make a tutorial on how to build Vidalia on Windows, or just add a
 those steps on a README, and refer the two or three users to that when
 they complain.

 Another possibility is to use a define (disabled by default) "-DWIN2K" or
 something, that Erinn can use when building the bundles, and the regular
 user that wants to build it in Windows XP or 7 won't notice a thing.

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