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Hi Friends ,
This is Ganeshan . I Found the Below undefined errors when using Socket programming on Eclipse IDE . I don't know what to do ?. Kindly please help me in removing the Errors .

[Linker error] undefined reference to `WSAStartup@8'
[Linker error] undefined reference to `socket@12'

Thanks
Regards

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you have to link with ws2_32.lib

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Hi ,

I tried linking using the Praqma Comment shown below :-

#pragma comment (lib, "Ws2_32.lib")

Even doing this i could not resolve the error .

Regards
Ganeshan S

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that pragma may not be recognized by your compiler. Try adding the library in the project settings. I don't use that compiler so I don't know how that's done.

Or you could just get a better compiler, such as free Code::Blocks with MinGW.

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