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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: djoot on May 19, 2011, 01:44:27 AM



Title: 0.3.21 on Windows 2000 defunct?
Post by: djoot on May 19, 2011, 01:44:27 AM
No more support for Microsoft's best OS?

bitcoin fails with something like "couldn't find freeaddrinfo in WS2_32.DLL"


Title: Re: 0.3.21 on Windows 2000 defunct?
Post by: grue on May 19, 2011, 02:15:06 AM
quick google search:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5172093_replace-wsdll.html


Title: Re: 0.3.21 on Windows 2000 defunct?
Post by: djoot on May 19, 2011, 03:26:13 PM
Ok, I put in a ws2_32.dll from an xp-install in my bitcoin.exe directory, then it complained about ntdll.dll, and I put that in there, to no avail. I don't really feel like replacing a lot of dll's in my system from various sources.

I wonder if this is a build issue or if something changed in the code to make W2k obsolete. I might try to build it from source, but for now I'm just going back to 0.3.20.2