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RE: WININET not on NT4?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:23:38 -0000
- Subject: RE: WININET not on NT4?
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 13 06:06, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>> Per MSDN, wininet.dll should be available on NT4 so I'm wondering if
>>> my system is just broken, or if wininet.dll is NOT available on NT4
>>> in contrast to MSDN's description.
>>
>> Hrm, that sucks. MSDN seemed pretty clear that it should be there on
>> everything back to 95/NT4.
>>
>>> Brian, since you created this functionality, would you mind to look into
>>> dynamicalize (urgh) the wininet function calls *iff* necessary?
>>
>> Certainly.
>
> Thanks. I'm really at a loss right now. I examined the original NT4
> installation CD from.... well, last century, and there are no traces of
> any WININET.* OTOH, The file WININET.DLL is certainly on the Service
> Pack 6a CD. But the machine claims to have SP6 installed... Anyway, I
> just copied the WININET.DLL over to my NT4 system and cygrunsrv still
> doesn't work because WININET.DLL requires SHLWAPI.DLL which is also
> missing on my system, and which is *not* on the SP6 CD :-(((
> Nevertheless, if somebody could enlighten me and the whole Cygwin
> universe what's right or wrong on NT4 with respect to WININET.DLL, don't
> be shy.
Hey, isn't it likely that wininet and shlwapi were originally distributed as
part of the Internet Explorer distribution, sometime back in win95/IE3
days[*], and that's why it isn't on the OS cd?
cheers,
DaveK
[*] - Some of our younger readers may find it hard to believe, but there once
*was* a time when IE wasn't part of the OS...
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