Re: [Libvir] 18/22 Misc headers

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:43:46AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Miscellaneous changes to headers. The important one is that if > <winsock2.h> is available then that replaces all of the usual socket- > and network database-related headers (which are not available in > Windows). Thus you end up with code like this: > > #ifndef HAVE_WINSOCK2_H > #include <sys/socket.h> > #include <netdb.h> > #include <netinet/in.h> > #else > #include <winsock2.h> > #endif I looked quickly how it's dome in libxml2, there we use _WINSOCKAPI_ as the define to select the Windows networking API (apparently a standard define of Microsoft) and we have a wsockcompat.h which does some remapping of the BSD interfaces onto winsock.h/winsock2.h . Lets keep things simple as you did with gnulib and if people want to compile on the various MS compilers, well we take patches :-)