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| author | Marc Hoersken <info@marc-hoersken.de> | 2020-08-30 12:21:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Marc Hoersken <info@marc-hoersken.de> | 2020-09-02 16:30:39 +0200 |
| commit | 3e4b32a3e1250d49bd0e45a35b3a08a2f4d07d8f (patch) | |
| tree | 8203eec934f180afe2bad1ae54ac77dc8ffd7e69 /docs | |
| parent | 20d74b7393d5aedcc9d54c92b8ed56cae473d04e (diff) | |
| download | curl-3e4b32a3e1250d49bd0e45a35b3a08a2f4d07d8f.tar.gz | |
win32: drop support for WinSock version 1, require version 2
IPv6, telnet and now also the multi API require WinSock
version 2 which is available starting with Windows 95.
Therefore we think it is time to drop support for version 1.
Reviewed-by: Marcel Raad
Reviewed-by: Jay Satiro
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg
Reviewed-by: Viktor Szakats
Follow up to #5634
Closes #5854
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/INTERNALS.md b/docs/INTERNALS.md index 635e7b2d1..a15703463 100644 --- a/docs/INTERNALS.md +++ b/docs/INTERNALS.md @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ Dependencies - NSS 3.14.x - Heimdal ? - nghttp2 1.12.0 + - WinSock 2.2 (on Windows 95+ and Windows CE .NET 4.1+) Operating Systems ----------------- @@ -146,6 +147,8 @@ Windows vs Unix also do it etc there might be reasons for applications to alter that behaviour. + We require WinSock version 2.2 and load this version during global init. + 3. The file descriptors for network communication and file operations are not as easily interchangeable as in Unix. |