DM, et. al.

I'm (still) running Synchronet on an old Windows XP box; the last time I did
a full update was in March. Last night, I updated from sbbs_run and sbbs.dev.zip and sbbsctrl.exe wouldn't start. It gave the following error window:

Sbbsctrl - entry point not found.
The procedure entry point inet_top could not be located in dynamic link library ws2_32.dll.

Apparently, after a bit of googling, this happens with any Windows OS <= Vista.

If it's possible to make it work again with XP, I'd be happy. Eventually I'm looking to move to Linux, but time, learning curve, etc.

Thanks!




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Re: Synchronet on XP
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Tue Aug 27 2019 06:34 am

DM, et. al.

I'm (still) running Synchronet on an old Windows XP box; the last time I did a full update was in March. Last night, I updated from sbbs_run and sbbs.dev.zip and sbbsctrl.exe wouldn't start. It gave the following error window:

Sbbsctrl - entry point not found.
The procedure entry point inet_top could not be located in dynamic link library ws2_32.dll.

Apparently, after a bit of googling, this happens with any Windows OS <= Vista.

If it's possible to make it work again with XP, I'd be happy. Eventually I'm looking to move to Linux, but time, learning curve, etc.

I'll commit a change to remove the call to inet_ntop(). Let me know how that works for you.

digital man

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Re: Synchronet on XP
By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Aug 27 2019 09:18 am

I'll commit a change to remove the call to inet_ntop(). Let me know how that works for you.

Thanks!

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DM, et. al.

I'm (still) running Synchronet on an old Windows XP box; the last time I did a full update was in March. Last night, I updated from sbbs_run and sbbs.dev.zip and sbbsctrl.exe wouldn't start. It gave the following error window:

Sbbsctrl - entry point not found.
The procedure entry point inet_top could not be located in dynamic link library ws2_32.dll.

Apparently, after a bit of googling, this happens with any Windows OS <= Vista.

If it's possible to make it work again with XP, I'd be happy. Eventually I'm looking to move to Linux, but time, learning curve, etc.

Thanks!

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I remember running my Synchronet BBS v3.15b on Windows XP in 2012. Those were the good old days. Ran Mystic as well back then.

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The Millionaire wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I remember running my Synchronet BBS v3.15b on Windows XP in 2012.
Those were the good old days. Ran Mystic as well back then.

I've run a BBS out of my house on DOS or Windows since 1991, and Synchronet
on Windows since 2005. It wouldn't be the same without it.




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