Compile errors in libgcj while building cross-compiler for MinGW

[Ranjit Mathew]

Adam Megacz wrote:
>> Ranjit> Am I the only one left here who plays with the mingw32 target?
> 
>> Maybe.  There seems to be a fair amount of interest in this target but
>> not many people to work on it.  Bummer.
> 
> I'll be back on it soon enough.  But I really need Bryce to devote
> about ten minutes to helping me with the otable stuff first.

Yay! Am I happy or what! :-) Welcome back.


>> To accommodate this limitation, I propose defining macros
>> "_Jv_platform_getsockerr()" and "_Jv_platform_setsockerr()"
> 
> I would greatly prefer to simply break off the Win32 socket stuff into
> Win32SocketImpl.java, just like we do with filesystem stuff.  The
> Win32 sockets stuff superficially appears to be BSD-compatible, but
> it's not.
> 
> Trying to cram it into the same file by using tricky #define's and
> #ifdef's is just asking for trouble, and it will only get harder as we
> start implementing more sophisticated stuff like IPv6 and multicast.

And while we are at it and at the risk of being clobbered for
raising this issue yet again, I would sincerely suggest that we
move to WinSock 2 in toto - I'm really uncomfortable about mixing
functions linked in from both wsock32 and ws2_32 in the same
program... Besides, it would affect only a *very small* population
of truly vanilla Win95 installations and even then is easily
corrected.

Sincerely Yours,
Ranjit.

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