trouble compiling liblwres on Windows (BIND 9.3.0)

[Stefan Puiu]

Danny Mayer wrote:

>At 05:18 PM 1/20/2005, Mark Andrews wrote:
>VC++ V6 do not include the necessary files and you need to get them
>from the SDK. V7 (aka .NET) includes these files and you don't need
>the SDK for them. For V6 you need the following 4 files from the SDK:
>iphlpapi.h
>iptypes.h
>ipexport.h
>iphlpapi.lib
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>If you don't want to install the SDK you can just copy these files. I just
>put the headers into the VC98/Include directory and the link library into
>the VC98/Lib directory. After that everything builds.
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Not quite. The compiler would choke on iphlpapi.h with the following error:

c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iphlpapi.h(183) : 
error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'pStats'
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iphlpapi.h(183) : 
error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'pStats'
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iphlpapi.h(183) : 
error C2059: syntax error : ';'
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iphlpapi.h(183) : 
error C2059: syntax error : ','
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iphlpapi.h(185) : 
error C2059: syntax error : ')'

The line that was causing the error has something like:

    OUT PMIB_ICMP_EX    pStats,

with PMIB_ICMP_EX not being defined anywhere. I checked the SDK and it 
seems to be defined in Iprtrmib.h; that file already exists in 
VC98\Include, so I kept a copy of the old one and overwrote it with the 
one from the SDK. Now liblwres builds just fine, and so does named (and 
the other binaries).

We don't have licenses for MSDEV 7, unfortunately, so I can't build with 
that compiler/header files/libraries set right now.

>Note that this is a requirement as of 9.3.0. The 9.2.x versions don't
>use it. It was necessary in order to deal correctly with the nameserver
>list, domain and domain search information. Looking at the tarball
>I notice that the win32utils/win32-build.txt file which contain build
>instructions hasn't been updated to reflect this change.
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>Note I have built on V7 also without problems.
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>Danny
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