Re: [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41086] of-sockets 1.0.8: doesnt link with winsock in windows

[John D]

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From: Paul Dreik [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 6:29 AM
To: Carnë Draug; John Donoghue; address@hidden
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Subject: Re: [bug #41086] of-sockets 1.0.8: doesnt link with winsock in
windows

Hi,
thanks for emailing me directly.

Thanks JD for the patch. Does it work for current windows versions (xp<= ver
<= 8.1)?
which version did you test it on?

I usually do not use windows. according
to http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows there are several
ways to run octave in windows, which one did you use?

the patch looks harmless in case it does not detect windows, so thanks carne
for applying it.

there are however some other changes which I have not seen until now, which
I want to review before I make a release. specifically, the new package does
not work with octave 3.6 which I think is a problem.

regarding the return values, I agree but that is another discussion, which
maybe better takes place on the maintainers list.

paul

4 jan 2014 kl. 04.20 skrev Carnë Draug:

> Follow-up Comment #3, bug #41086 (project octave):
>
> I'm adding the Paul Dreik, the maintainer of the sockets package to 
> this mail.
>
> I have fixed a few other bugs in this package this week so I guess a 
> new release would be nice. There's one thing bothering me with it that 
> would be nice before for a next release which would be the return 
> value of the functions. When there's a problem, sometimes it causes an 
> error, other times it returns a -1.
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I tried it on Win7 and Xp and it worked ok. I am using the latest 3.8.0
using the mxe-octave (mingw)