diff --git a/src/seeder/compat.h b/src/seeder/compat.h
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-// Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
-// Copyright (c) 2009-2012 The Bitcoin developers
-// Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying
-// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
-#ifndef BITCOIN_SEEDER_COMPAT_H
-#define BITCOIN_SEEDER_COMPAT_H
-
-#ifdef WIN32
-#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501
-#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN 1
-#ifndef NOMINMAX
-#define NOMINMAX
-#endif
-#include <mswsock.h>
-#include <winsock2.h>
-#include <ws2tcpip.h>
-#else
-#include <arpa/inet.h>
-#include <ifaddrs.h>
-#include <net/if.h>
-#include <netdb.h>
-#include <netinet/in.h>
-#include <sys/fcntl.h>
-#include <sys/socket.h>
-#include <sys/types.h>
-#include <unistd.h>
-#endif
-
-typedef u_int SOCKET;
-#ifdef __APPLE__
-#define MSG_NOSIGNAL 0
-#endif
-#ifdef WIN32
-#define MSG_NOSIGNAL 0
-#define MSG_DONTWAIT 0
-typedef int socklen_t;
-#else
-#include "errno.h"
-#define WSAGetLastError() errno
-#define WSAEINVAL EINVAL
-#define WSAEALREADY EALREADY
-#define WSAEWOULDBLOCK EWOULDBLOCK
-#define WSAEMSGSIZE EMSGSIZE
-#define WSAEINTR EINTR
-#define WSAEINPROGRESS EINPROGRESS
-#define WSAEADDRINUSE EADDRINUSE
-#define WSAENOTSOCK EBADF
-#define INVALID_SOCKET (SOCKET)(~0)
-#define SOCKET_ERROR -1
-#endif
-
-inline int myclosesocket(SOCKET &hSocket) {
-    if (hSocket == INVALID_SOCKET) return WSAENOTSOCK;
-#ifdef WIN32
-    int ret = closesocket(hSocket);
-#else
-    int ret = close(hSocket);
-#endif
-    hSocket = INVALID_SOCKET;
-    return ret;
-}
-#define closesocket(s) myclosesocket(s)
-
-#endif