Additional Dependencies for Linker: ws2_32.lib

[Rabbit]

You will also need to add ws2_32.lib to the list of library files, so the linker wont freak. To do this, go to the Visual Studio menu, Project->Win32WrapperClass Properties->Linker->Input and add ws2_32.lib to the Additional Dependencies field.

So the tutorial says I need to do this, unfortunately I'm using DevC++.

I was looking through the menus and I found the "Further object files or linker options" under project options. So I thought this might be the equivalent. However, there was no ws2_32.lib but there was a libws2_32.a which I assumed was the same thing.

So I include that but the Linker's still throwing "undefined reference"

[Banfa]

Does DevC++ run in CygWin?

CygWin does this funny thing where it adds the lib and the .a for you so you should specify the library as ws2_32

I think it's a Linux thing, definitely one of the stranger ones, I hate programs that assume things.


P.S. Udefined reference to what?

[Rabbit]

Does DevC++ run in CygWin?

CygWin does this funny thing where it adds the lib and the .a for you so you should specify the library as ws2_32

I think it's a Linux thing, definitely one of the stranger ones, I hate programs that assume things.


P.S. Udefined reference to what?

It's Mingw but it can run under CygWin.

I'm also on Windows.

[Banfa]

Try it as ws2_32 anyway, this may still apply.

And undefined reference to what?

[Rabbit]

Nevermind, I got it. I had to use libwsock32.a instead.

[Rabbit]

I wonder if it was the tutorial that's wrong or if the libraries in DevC++ are named differently from the libraries in Visual C++.

[Banfa]

no there are 3 libraries in MSVC++ as well which your 2 are equivalent to your 2 of I suspect

winsock.lib    <-- 16 bit Windows Sockets 1
wsock32.lib   <-- 32 bit Windows Sockets 1
ws2_32.lib     <-- Windows Sockets 2