Installing IPV6 Support on Windows for MSVC 6 Craig Southeren Last updated 15 February 2005

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Introduction

IPV6 is only available for MSVC as a separate package. This document describes to location of the required packages, as well as some general useful information. Note that VS.net 2003 already contains full IPV6 support.

According to Microsoft, IPv6 is:

• not supported under Windows 9x
• experimental on Win2000
• supported on XP.

See http://research.microsoft.com/msripv6 for general information about IPv6 

IMPORTANT: As of 15 Feb 2005, the only way to get IPV6 support with MSVC 6 is to install the Windows Platform SDK. Make sure that MSVC is configured with the include and lib directories for the Platform SDK above the normal Microsoft Visual Studio include and lib directories. See Important Tip #1 in the Windows compile instructions for an example of how to do this.

Windows 2000

Information specific to IPv6 on Windows 2000 can be found at the IPv6 tech preview web page.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6.asp

The IPv6 driver and associated include files can be installed as follows:

• Go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6/download.asp and download tpipv6-001205.exe after accepting the EULA
• Carefully read the FAQ at http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6/faq.asp

This program is designed for Windows 2000 English Service Pack 1. Some files may need to be modified for later service packs. More details can be found in the FAQ.

Windows XP

Information specific to IPv6 on Windows XP  can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/administration/ipv6/default.asp

The 'ipv6 install' command installs only the IPv6 drivers. You need to install additional IPv6 includes for VC6. 

Alternatively, you can install the Platform SDK which includes all of the requirements for IPV6 (and other functions as well). The Microsoft Platform SDK update page can be found here.
   

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