linking Winsock

[Guest42]

Actually, this is more of a general question, but I'm really new to the C and C++ languages, and since I've only ever really used Java and it's standard libraries, I'm unsure about how to link things in C (or C++, but I'm just using C for now)

Right now, I'm trying to use an example on Winsock, using Dev-CPP editor. I have the winsock.h included, which works fine, but I get a linker error for every winsock function I try to call.

I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to link to wsock32 or ws2_32 libraries, but I don't know how to find them or link them. So can someone tell me how linking works, and how to set it up?

Thanks in advance

 

[DaveSinkula]

Link with [tt]libws2_32.a[/tt]?

 

[Guest42]

Er, I don't know... is that anothing libary? I'm guessing these files are .dll or .lib files, but regardless I imagine that if I can link to one library I can link to any library. But, I just don't know how to do it, and that's want I'm curious about.

 

[sedj]

You need to link to wsock32.lib

Find it like this :

dir C:\wsock32.lib /s

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[Guest42]

I know how to find files, but, I still don't know how to link them, which is my point. Find, I found wsock32.lib. Now what?

 

[sedj]

I would suggest reading the documentation on your IDE/compiler :

http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/doc/index.html

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