res_search dll file

[Danny Mayer]

At 05:34 PM 11/7/01, Scott Inglis wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I ran into a problem when calling res_search on Windows NT using Bind 8.2.5.
>
>res_search does not link when I could compile my code.
>
>After a lot of frustration and hair pulling, I discovered that the
>__res_search was not defined in the .def file of the libbind project.
>
>Of course, after I added in an entry in the .def file for __res_search, the
>program compiles and works great.
>
>Does anybody know if this is a bug or is there a reason why this was not
>included in the .def file?

No it's not a bug. There was no reason to include it as none of the 
applications
the come with BIND 8 used it. There are actually a lot of other functions 
that are
not listed in libbind.def and it was not worth the time tracking down the 
missing
ones.

         Danny