Support gratuitous GCC dependencies
keith keith keith I've addressed the two issues, as noted in the ticket submission, by way of commit #3130b13, and commit #9b6ff66.
A further issue, which arises in the Ada sockets API for GCC-9.x, is that the getaddrinfo(), getnameinfo(), and freeaddrinfo() functions are now gratuitously assumed to be available, where in reality, Microsoft's universally available WS2_32.DLL didn't support them before the release of WinXP; (they were available on Win2K, in WSHIP6.DLL, for users who had installed Win2K's IPv6 technology preview package). For earlier versions of Windows, they could be obtained, to the extent that they are applicable for IPv4 only, by inclusion of the supplementary <wspiapi.h> header, in addition to <ws2tcpip.h>; however, MinGW.org lacks an implementation of any such supplementary header. I shall work up such an implementation, to mitigate this omission.
keith keith As of the release of wsl-5.3, all gratuitously assumed features needed to support building of GCC-9.2.0 have been incorporated, for mingw32.
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MS-Windows builds of GCC-9.x gratuitously require Microsoft's non-standard _get_errno() and _set_errno() functions, which are not supported by MSVCRT.DLL prior to Windows-Vista. Additionally, this same GCC version introduces a dependency on a ftruncate64() function, which, as ftruncate() is mapped to Microsoft's _chsize(), could be mapped to Microsoft's _chsize_s(); however, like the two non-standard errno accessors, _chsize_s() is unsupported, without introducing dependencies on non-free Microsoft DLLs, prior to Windows-Vista. Such gratuitous GCC dependencies are incompatible with MinGW.org's policy of continuing legacy support for pre-Vista Windows versions.
The attached patch offers work-arounds for each of these gratuitous GCC dependencies, extending support to pre-Vista Windows, while still linking with MSVCRT.DLL.