Re: [Chicken-users] Issues with socket egg

[John Cowan]

Jim Ursetto scripsit:
> On May 8, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Michele La Monaca <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 2) The egg doesn’t install on Cygwin due to the unbound identifier
> > 'SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE' (mingw only?). Dropping the related option
> > (so/exclusiveaddruse) solves the problem.
> 
> When you get a chance, can you check out this repository (a superset of 
> socket, tcp6 and udp6):
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/ursetto/rfc2553
> 
> and run `chicken-install socket.setup` from the checkout directory to install 
> it?
> 
> I believe this should fix the Cygwin problem.

You have to be a local Windows admin to set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE
on at least some versions of Windows.

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