How to use inet_pton() with the mingw compiler?

Question

I'm trying to add IPv6 compatibility to an already IPv4-compatible program in C, but having some problems with the compiler. Currently compiling with mingw32-gcc-4.6.2, which gives me a linking error when using the function inet_pton.

I've tried making it compile for vista(as inet_pton is a vista function), but it seems like the whole function is missing from mingw.

Is there any way to add it to mingw, or any other options I may have missed?

Answer 1

Author: Paul Vixie, 1996. Tested in MinGW/GCC:

int inet_pton(int af, const char *src, char *dst)
{
    switch (af)
    {
    case AF_INET:
        return inet_pton4(src, dst);
    case AF_INET6:
        return inet_pton6(src, dst);
    default:
        return -1;
    }
}

..

#define NS_INADDRSZ  4
#define NS_IN6ADDRSZ 16
#define NS_INT16SZ   2

..

int inet_pton4(const char *src, char *dst)
{
    uint8_t tmp[NS_INADDRSZ], *tp;

    int saw_digit = 0;
    int octets = 0;
    *(tp = tmp) = 0;

    int ch;
    while ((ch = *src++) != '\0')
    {
        if (ch >= '0' && ch <= '9')
        {
            uint32_t n = *tp * 10 + (ch - '0');

            if (saw_digit && *tp == 0)
                return 0;

            if (n > 255)
                return 0;

            *tp = n;
            if (!saw_digit)
            {
                if (++octets > 4)
                    return 0;
                saw_digit = 1;
            }
        }
        else if (ch == '.' && saw_digit)
        {
            if (octets == 4)
                return 0;
            *++tp = 0;
            saw_digit = 0;
        }
        else
            return 0;
    }
    if (octets < 4)
        return 0;

    memcpy(dst, tmp, NS_INADDRSZ);

    return 1;
}

...

int inet_pton6(const char *src, char *dst)
{
    static const char xdigits[] = "0123456789abcdef";
    uint8_t tmp[NS_IN6ADDRSZ];

    uint8_t *tp = (uint8_t*) memset(tmp, '\0', NS_IN6ADDRSZ);
    uint8_t *endp = tp + NS_IN6ADDRSZ;
    uint8_t *colonp = NULL;

    /* Leading :: requires some special handling. */
    if (*src == ':')
    {
        if (*++src != ':')
            return 0;
    }

    const char *curtok = src;
    int saw_xdigit = 0;
    uint32_t val = 0;
    int ch;
    while ((ch = tolower(*src++)) != '\0')
    {
        const char *pch = strchr(xdigits, ch);
        if (pch != NULL)
        {
            val <<= 4;
            val |= (pch - xdigits);
            if (val > 0xffff)
                return 0;
            saw_xdigit = 1;
            continue;
        }
        if (ch == ':')
        {
            curtok = src;
            if (!saw_xdigit)
            {
                if (colonp)
                    return 0;
                colonp = tp;
                continue;
            }
            else if (*src == '\0')
            {
                return 0;
            }
            if (tp + NS_INT16SZ > endp)
                return 0;
            *tp++ = (uint8_t) (val >> 8) & 0xff;
            *tp++ = (uint8_t) val & 0xff;
            saw_xdigit = 0;
            val = 0;
            continue;
        }
        if (ch == '.' && ((tp + NS_INADDRSZ) <= endp) &&
                inet_pton4(curtok, (char*) tp) > 0)
        {
            tp += NS_INADDRSZ;
            saw_xdigit = 0;
            break; /* '\0' was seen by inet_pton4(). */
        }
        return 0;
    }
    if (saw_xdigit)
    {
        if (tp + NS_INT16SZ > endp)
            return 0;
        *tp++ = (uint8_t) (val >> 8) & 0xff;
        *tp++ = (uint8_t) val & 0xff;
    }
    if (colonp != NULL)
    {
        /*
         * Since some memmove()'s erroneously fail to handle
         * overlapping regions, we'll do the shift by hand.
         */
        const int n = tp - colonp;

        if (tp == endp)
            return 0;

        for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++)
        {
            endp[-i] = colonp[n - i];
            colonp[n - i] = 0;
        }
        tp = endp;
    }
    if (tp != endp)
        return 0;

    memcpy(dst, tmp, NS_IN6ADDRSZ);

    return 1;
}