[Libevent-users] Success compile libevent 1.4.3 with VC6

[Nick Mathewson]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 02:01:44PM +0100, James Mansion wrote:
> 
> >Also, I think this change will double-initialize winsock on all
> >programs that use multiple event bases, and double-shutdown winsock
> >whenever the bases are closed on those programs.
> >  
> From the MSDN docs:
> 
> An application can call *WSAStartup* more than once if it needs to 
> obtain the *WSADATA* structure information more than once. On each such 
> call, the application can specify any version number supported by the 
> Winsock DLL.
> 
> An application must call the *WSACleanup* function for every successful 
> time the *WSAStartup* function is called.

Ah!  Never mind that part of my message then.  If this is so, I see no
reason not to add a WSAStartup call.

yrs,
-- 
Nick