Starting with version 13.x, the mingw headers will define the value of
NTDDI_VERSION, based on the value of _WIN32_WINNT, if that version is <
Windows 10. Given that libevent was undefining our _WIN32_WINNT, and
redefining it to a value < Windows 10 (0x0501), NTDDI_VERSION was also
being defined to that value, leading to functions not being exposed in
the mingw-w64 headers; see here:
9c2668ef77/mingw-w64-headers/include/iphlpapi.h (L36-L41).
Imports a commit from usptream (a14ff91254f40cf36e0fee199e26fb11260fab49).
Fixes#32707.
libevent uses getaddrinfo when available, and falls back to gethostbyname
Windows has both, but gethostbyname only supports IPv4
libevent fails to detect Windows's getaddrinfo due to not including the right headers
This patches libevent's configure script to check it correctly
Add a patch that seems to be necessary for compatibilty of libevent
2.0.22 with recent mingw-w64 gcc versions (at least GCC 5.3.1 from Ubuntu
16.04).
Without this patch the Content-Length in the HTTP header ends up as
`Content-Length: zu`, causing communication between the RPC
client and server to break down. See discussion in #8653.
Source: https://sourceforge.net/p/levent/bugs/363/
Thanks to @sstone for the suggestion.
