VS6 essentially became obsolete in 2002, with the release of Visual Studio 7 .NET. IIRC, IPv6 was still in its infancy.
From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of neil carter Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 10:28 AM To: Walter H.; openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: 1.0.1j on Windows32 shows "error C2027: use of undefined type 'in6_addr'" Sorry, typo - s/b 'VCVARS32.bat' So are you implying that MS Visual Studio 6.0 might be the issue in that it might not have built-in code with IPv6 headers? Haven't the IPv6 pieces of the OpenSSL code been around for a while? I know I saw posts regarding it from several years back in the list archive. Thanks! On 11/5/2014 12:13 PM, Walter H. wrote: On 05.11.2014 18:47, neil carter wrote: I'm trying to install the 1.0.1j version on a Windows 2003 server (32-bit), with MS Visual Studio 6.0, nasm 2.11.05, and ActiveState perl v5.16.3. Steps involved include running the VCVARS21.BAT script, ' perl Configure VC-WIN32 --prefix=c:\openssl-1.0.1j', 'ms\do_nasm.bat', and finally 'nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak'. Everything looks normal/good until the last step, which ends in the following: VCVARS21.BAT = Visual C++ 2.1? if yes, you should throw away the old ancient compiler of the early beginning of WinNT ... as of 1994; and get the new actual Platform SDK from Microsoft ... .\apps\s_cb.c(803) : error C2027: use of undefined type 'in6_addr' .\apps\s_cb.c(803) : see declaration of 'in6_addr' .\apps\s_cb.c(836) : error C2027: use of undefined type 'in6_addr' .\apps\s_cb.c(836) : see declaration of 'in6_addr' .\apps\s_cb.c(884) : error C2027: use of undefined type 'in6_addr' .\apps\s_cb.c(884) : see declaration of 'in6_addr' .\apps\s_cb.c(917) : error C2027: use of undefined type 'in6_addr' .\apps\s_cb.c(917) : see declaration of 'in6_addr' NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2' Stop. this seems that you include ancient SDK headers not capable of IPv6 at all ...
