[sldev] Better support for the Open Source community

[Tobias Lang]

Hi,
in case someone missed it, I also ran into c-ares linking errors once and
fixed them by doing this:

alissa_sabre at yahoo.co.jp wrote:
> I use c-ares 1.4, downloaded from the official webpage. Is this the right
> version?

Yes.
> *newview error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _ares_getnameinfo

>  Has anybody else run into the same problem?

Yes.
You just need to add the file ares_getnameinfo.c to areslib project as
a source.  (I learned this from resident Tarari Watanabe.)
It is caused by the fact that the Visual Studio project file come with
c-ares 1.4.0 is not updated from 1.3 series and out-of-date.

-Tobias


On Nov 13, 2007 4:02 PM, Dale Glass <dale at daleglass.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 November 2007 21:46:43 Matthew Dowd wrote:
> > I've not been able to compile the viewer since 1.18.3.
> >
> > 1.18.4 introduced a few new library dependencies not included in the
> > library download - in particular c-ares. Whilst I've managed to hunt
> > this component down, and at least get through the compilation stage - so
> > far I've not managed to get a compiled version of c-ares which doesn't
> > cause errors at the link stage (and my plea for help on this list didn't
> > seem to get a response unless I missed an e-mail).
> The viewer needs c-ares 1.4.0, that seems to work for me.
>
> Except then it crashes horribly when the viewer tries to login. I think
> I've hit some obscure bug since other people can't seem to reproduce it.
>
> What link error are you getting, and which version were you using?
>
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