[fpc-devel] cnetdb.pp Compile Error on both trunk and stable (MacOSX aarch64)

[Jonas Maebe]

On 08/06/2025 12:59, Michael Ring via fpc-devel wrote:
> When trying to build fpc (with fpcupdeluxe) I get the following error 
> for both Trunk and Stable(!!) version of fpc:
> 
> Compiling ./fcl-net/src/cnetdb.pp
> 
> cnetdb.pp(240,2) Error: User defined: fatal 'Please consult the netdb.h 
> file for your system to determine the order of ai_addr and ai_canonname'
> cnetdb.pp(320,1) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
> 
> Fatal: Compilation aborted
> 
> 
> problem is that none of the defines matches:
> 
> {$if defined(LINUX) or defined(OPENBSD)}
> {$define FIRST_ADDR_THEN_CANONNAME}
> {$endif}
> {$if defined(FREEBSD) or defined(NETBSD) or defined(DRAGONFLY) or 
> defined(SOLARIS) or defined(ANDROID)}
> {$define FIRST_CANONNAME_THEN_ADDR}
> {$endif}
> {$if not defined(FIRST_CANONNAME_THEN_ADDR) and not 
> defined(FIRST_ADDR_THEN_CANONNAME)}
> {$error fatal 'Please consult the netdb.h file for your system to 
> determine the order of ai_addr and ai_canonname'}
> {$endif}

cnetdb is not enabled for Darwin in the official source/repo. So that 
sounds like a bad/incomplete patch that fpcupdeluxe applies.


Jonas