Re: [Bug-wget] wget-1.12-2359 alpha version

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Thanks!

I have removed wsock32, now the wget executable on Windows links to
ws2_32.

Cheers,
Giuseppe



Keisial <address@hidden> writes:

> If you use ws2_32 you don't need to link with wsock32. In fact wsock32
> is mostly forwarded functions.
> Linking to wsock32 and not ws2_32 has the advantage that it works in old
> windows versions* but if you are linking with ws2_32, I think it would
> break on them with ws2_32.dll not found, that you would need to
> dynamically load it to produce a -more or less- universal binary.
>
>
> *And by old it is very old. Winsock 2 came with Windows 98 and Windows
> NT4. It can be installed into Windows 95.
> http://www.sockets.com/winsock2.htm#Status