Plans for IPv6 support on windows?

[Daniel Atallah]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 05:23, Eion Robb <eion at robbmob.com> wrote:
> I had a look at this just now.
> It's possible to configure better* IPv6 support on windows by editing the
> config.h.mingw to include
>
> #ifndef _WIN32_WINNT
> #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501
> #endif
>
> and uncomment the line
> #define HAVE_GETADDRINFO 1
>
> I've built a new libpurple.dll that you can try with at
> http://eion.robbmob.com/libpurple-2.10.1-ipv6.zip
>
> The caveat is that I haven't tested it as I don't have an IPv6 connection
> here at home.  Would appreciate some feedback. :)


The caveat of this is that the build will only work on Windows XP+
(that's why we haven't done this in the normal builds).

-D