Re: [RFT final 1/2] Provide winsock wrappers for increased compatibility

[Paolo Bonzini]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> except the need to
>> move parts of the sys_socket module to errno/stdio/string.
> 
> I can do that for you. It's the usual gnulib macrology and substology.
> 
>> 2) regarding string, strerror does not need to be replaced under mingw;
> 
> Huh? strerror is declared by mingw's <string.h>. Since you provide a
> replacement in winsock.c, this replacement should be declared in our
> <string.h> replacement.

Sorry for being unclear: the MinGW strerror does not need the
replacement *already in gnulib*, so there is no clash.  It is
suboptimal, but compiles.

Thanks for the offer of completing the work.

Paolo