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Re: mingw32 winsock.h

On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, dale henderson wrote:

> 
> 
> I am trying to use this header in a GUI framework, wxwindows.
> When make runs the linker to create the .exe, it drops with
>  undefined references to all winsock functions in the 
> format: <function name>@<integer>, such as 
> 
> "closesocket@4" and "shutdown@8".

Add -lwsock32 to your link line. I assume Win32 API docs mention this.

> 
> I may not have cygwin.dll and winsock in sync. Any suggestions?
> 

Mingw32 executables do not use Cygwin DLL. When you use mingw,
you use MS runtime by default; when you Cygwin GCC, you use Cygwin 
DLL by default. Can't mix those two.

Regards,
Mumit



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