Is it possible to somehow use the winsock API on a unix machine?
Duki 552 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
No. use POSIX sockets. The two are a lot alike so it shouldn't be all that difficutl to port from MS-Windows to *nix.
Duki 552 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
Ok, so if on my unix box I see a call to:
#if INCL_WINSOCK_API_PROTOTYPES
WINSOCK_API_LINKAGE
int
WSAAPI
connect(
IN SOCKET s,
__in_bcount(namelen) const struct sockaddr FAR * name,
IN int namelen
);
#endif /* INCL_WINSOCK_API_PROTOTYPES */Does that mean something's not right?
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
>>Does that mean something's not right?
No, it means the code has been ported to both MS-Windows and *nix. If compiling on MS-Windows then define INCL_WINSOCK_API_PROTOTYPES somewhere before the code snippet you posted. Using preprocessor instructions like that is a common way to write portable programs that are compiled with different compilers and/or operating systems.
Use of the FAR macro would leave me to believe the code was written for some 16-bit segmented MS-DOS compiler. 32-bit compilers do not use FAR.
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