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Title: Winsock Wont compile
Post by: astropirate on April 21, 2009, 11:59:58 pm

Greetings all!
I have been having this issue for a while. I cannot compile anything with winsock.
i attempted to compile http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737593(VS.85).aspx i included all the requred libraries but it would still not compile. it says

Quote

error: `getaddrinfo' was not declared in this scope
error: `freeaddrinfo' was not declared in this scope

which are in "ws2tcpip.h"

Any help please?


P.S
the code compiles fine when i use Dev-C++ but i personal prefer C::B   :lol:

Title: Re: Winsock Wont compile
Post by: astropirate on April 22, 2009, 07:05:20 am

Ok solution for those of you who have stumbled upon this while searching for the solution to the same problem


add:

Code

#define _WIN32_WINNT
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x501

Before your includes.

You would think Code::Blocks would do it for you... <_<

Title: Re: Winsock Wont compile
Post by: MortenMacFly on April 22, 2009, 07:14:58 am

Quote from: astropirate on April 22, 2009, 07:05:20 am

You would think Code::Blocks would do it for you... <_<

Why should it? What if I want to pass a different version?
It's up to the developer to pass needed DEFINES as arguments to the compiler. Check your project options -> Compiler -> Defines.