WININET not on NT4?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 13 07:20, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
> 
> > Hrm, that sucks.  MSDN seemed pretty clear that it should be there on
> > everything back to 95/NT4.
> 
> I was just playing around with NT4 under VMware and it seems the out of
> the box it lacks wininet.dll but it is present after I chose to install
> "Internet Explorer 3.01" from the list of optional components.  After
> doing that cygcheck -p works successfully.  I guess that makes sense.

Ouch.  Does it make sense, really?

> I can still look into doing autoload for cygcheck but I'm not sure how
> that would work exactly since it's not just a simple "is this NT4,
> y/n".  It could explicitly do loadlibrary("wininet.dll") and then just
> bail with a "Your system doesn't support this" message though.

I think it would make sense to do it, yes.


Thanks,
Corinna

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