[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Enable proper IPv6 functions on windows

[Ramiro Polla]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Ramiro Polla <ramiro.polla at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/15 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>:
>> Ramiro Polla <ramiro.polla at gmail.com> writes:
>>> 2010/1/15 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>:
>>>> I have to contest the usefulness of supporting win9x. ?Does anyone
>>>> really still use that?
>>>
>>> That's what the 2011 deadline is for. After that we'll just remove it
>>> and be done with it.
>>
>> In that case I suggest printing a big, fat warning at the end of
>> configure, and moving the deadline to some time rather soon, end of
>> June this year at the latest.
>
> j-b pointed me to KernelEx [1]. I tested only GetProcessTimes() and
> the freeaddrinfo() support and both are still missing, although I
> believe it may be feasible to fix it there instead. That would finally
> mean it's safe to drop win98 support everywhere and just tell poeple
> to install KernelEx...
>
> Ramiro Polla
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/

To not hold back Martin's patches, I suggest making XP default right
now and hope KernelEx will fulfill our needs in the near future. Patch
attached.
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