Implicit declaration of function 'getaddrinfo' on MinGW

Question

I have a C program that uses getaddrinfo(). It works as expected on Linux and Mac OS X.

I\'m in the middle of porting it to Windows.

When I comp

Answer 1

Supposedly the proper way to fix this is:

#define WINVER WindowsXP

Or perhaps more sensibly adding -DWINVER=WindowsXP to your CPPFLAGS.

Ref: http://mingw.5.n7.nabble.com/Undefined-reference-to-getaddrinfo-td5694.html

Note: didn’t work for me however.