Changes for mingw32 compatibility. Gave up using GetAddrInfoW. getaddrinfo is dynamically bound, gethostbyname is used if it is not available.

VC compilation is broken.

Make sure to use the dynamic boost-thread lib with mingw, as thread specific pointers are used!

src/net/linux/socket_helper.cpp

@@ -37,6 +37,32 @@ socket_string_to_addr(const char *str, int addrFamily, struct sockaddr * addr, i
 bool
 socket_resolve(const char *str, const char *port, int addrFamily, int sockType, int protocol, struct sockaddr *addr, int addrLen)
 {
-	return internal_socket_resolve(str, port, addrFamily, sockType, protocol, addr, addrLen);
+	bool retVal = false;
+
+	if (str && *str != 0)
+	{
+		struct addrinfo aiHints;
+		struct addrinfo *aiList = NULL;
+
+		memset(&aiHints, 0, sizeof(aiHints));
+		aiHints.ai_family = addrFamily;
+		aiHints.ai_socktype = sockType;
+		aiHints.ai_protocol = protocol;
+
+		// Try to resolve the name.
+		// Will (hopefully) use UTF-8 if called on Linux.
+		bool success = (getaddrinfo(str, port, &aiHints, &aiList) == 0);
+
+		if (success && aiList)
+		{
+			if ((int)aiList->ai_addrlen <= addrLen)
+			{
+				memcpy(addr, aiList->ai_addr, aiList->ai_addrlen);
+				retVal = true;
+			}
+			freeaddrinfo(aiList);
+		}
+	}
+	return retVal;
 }