Porting getifaddrs to Win XP

c++ macos windows-xp ipv6 ipv4
Goz picture Goz · Jun 18, 2010 · Viewed 11.4k times · Source

I'm trying to port a MacOSX app to windows and I've come up against a problem around getifaddrs. Basically windows does not support it. I'm trying to figure a way to re-implement it (for AF_INET and AF_INET6) but the "equivalent" functionality on windows appears to be nothing like the MacOSX support.

Has someone done this sort of conversion before? If so is there a nice way I can get windows to report me interface info like MacOSX does?

Answer

Laurent Etiemble picture Laurent Etiemble · Jun 18, 2010

The closest functions on Windows are GetAdaptersInfo and GetAdaptersAddresses. The MSDN documentation is pretty comprehensive, so you should find everything you need.

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