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[tor-bugs] #1655 [Tor - Tor client]: Windows 2000 crashes with "The procedure entry point freeaddrinfo could not be located in the dynamic link library WS2_32.DLL."

#1655: Windows 2000 crashes with "The procedure entry point freeaddrinfo could not
be located in the dynamic link library WS2_32.DLL."
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 Reporter:  anon1                      |       Owner:                                
     Type:  defect                     |      Status:  new                           
 Priority:  major                      |   Milestone:  Tor Browser Bundle for Windows
Component:  Tor - Tor client           |     Version:  Tor: 0.2.1.26                 
 Keywords:  Windows 2000 freeaddrinfo  |      Parent:                                
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 Hello,

  After installing vidalia-bundle-0.2.1.26-0.2.9.exe, upon launching it
 crashes, with "The procedure entry point freeaddrinfo could not be located
 in the dynamic link library WS2_32.DLL.". My operating system is windows
 2000 sp4 rollup 1 and all hotfixes.

  The solution seems to be from MSDN "The freeaddrinfo function was added
 to the Ws2_32.dll on Windows XP and later. To execute an application using
 this function on earlier versions of Windows (Windows 2000, Windows NT,
 and Windows Me/98/95), then you must include the Ws2tcpip.h file and also
 include the Wspiapi.h file. When the Wspiapi.h include file is added, the
 freeaddrinfo function is defined to the WspiapiFreeAddrInfo inline
 function in the Wspiapi.h file. At runtime, the WspiapiFreeAddrInfo
 function is implemented in such a way that if the Ws2_32.dll or the
 Wship6.dll (the file containing freeaddrinfo in the IPv6 Technology
 Preview for Windows 2000) does not include freeaddrinfo, then a version of
 freeaddrinfo is implemented inline based on code in the Wspiapi.h header
 file. This inline code will be used on older Windows platforms that do not
 natively support the freeaddrinfo function.", link
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737931(VS.85).aspx .

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