Error : LNK2001

[mickey22]

Hi all,

I am trying to build a C++ program and I am getting linking errors in the lib files which have been generated before and I have to include these lib fils to build my project.

Could anyone help me where I can look for this error?

>filt.lib(b.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _WSAStartup@8

b.obj is the object file of my original source file.

Thanks in advance.

[horace1]

Hi all,

I am trying to build a C++ program and I am getting linking errors in the lib files which have been generated before and I have to include these lib fils to build my project.

Could anyone help me where I can look for this error?

>filt.lib(b.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _WSAStartup@8

b.obj is the object file of my original source file.

Thanks in advance.

have you included the winsock lib file ? sounds like it is missing

[mickey22]

Is the winsock lib file part of Visual Studios.I have seen it in one of its directories.

So, I have just tried to include it in the properties of my project.But it did not work.

Could you please tell if I have included the right lib file?Or are there any other possibilties?Is there any location of finding this winsock lib file?

Thanks.

[horace1]

Is the winsock lib file part of Visual Studios.I have seen it in one of its directories.

So, I have just tried to include it in the properties of my project.But it did not work.

Could you please tell if I have included the right lib file?Or are there any other possibilties?Is there any location of finding this winsock lib file?

Thanks.

I don't use visual studio but my old Vesual C++ has a file WSOCK32.LIB which I guess is the winsock library. Look for a similar file?

[mickey22]

Actually I tried to solve it by including

#pragma comment(lib, "wsock32.lib")

It solved all the linking probs I have got.

Anyways thanks once again for your help.