On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:15:37 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Some external libraries required by native code are linked via linker > comments embedded in pragmas. Searching for which libraries are linked can > then become frustrating and confusing since they may be included in an > obscure place, and for all relevant compilers there is no difference between > specifying them from make and in a source file. The easiest solution is to > just always link them from make and remove any source level linkage. src/java.base/windows/native/libnio/ch/FileDispatcherImpl.c line 38: > 36: > 37: #include <Mswsock.h> > 38: #pragma comment(lib, "Mswsock.lib") I think this came about with one of the early Microsoft contributions to have transferTo optionally use TransmitFile on Windows. This create the dependency on Mswsock. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10633
