Re: Question about wsock32 (GetAddressByName)

In article <5f3ci1$f22@rzcom2.stadt-mh.de>, Dirk Scheer <dirk.scheer@stadt-mh.de> writes >Hello out there, > >I'm currently writing a Windows95 based database application. The database is >INFORMIX. I'm using INFORMIX-Net to connect to the database server. >INFORMIX-Net uses winsock (or better wsock32) to establish the connection. > >When developing the app, I'm using the Microsoft TCP/IP stack and everything >is working well. Now I've put my app onto another PC with Win95, but using >FTP's TCP/IP stack. When starting the program I get the following error >message: > >"The file ISQLT07C.DLL is linked with the missing export-WSOCK32.DLL:1109" > >The file ISQLT07C.DLL is shipped with INFORMIX-Net. I've made a dumpbin on the >Microsoft version of wsock32.dll and found a function called >GetAddressByName() with this number. But this function is nowhere defined in >winsock.h or winsock2.h. In FTP's wsock32.dll this function is not declared. > >So what is going wrong here? I've thougt when using winsock, it makes no >difference which TCP/IP stack is used. > SHould be correct... >Do INFORMIX-Net need the Microsoft TCP/IP stack? Are there >undocumented extensions in Microsoft's winsock implementation, which INFORMIX >use? > Probably not but there are differnt versions of the Winsock API. Possibly the FTP wsock32.dll is out of date and needs upgrading??? >How can I solve the problem? > >Thanks in advance. Any hints are appreciated... > >Dirk > >EMAIL: dirk.scheer@stadt-mh.de -- David Williams