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    Question Visual Studio #include

    hey guys,

    i don't have too much experience of using MS Visual Studio, therefore i need some help. i am trying to write a program using WinSock in Visual C++, so could someone tell be what i need to do to include the "winsock.h" header file, in MS Visual Studio. Beyond the following.

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    #include <winsock.h>
    i've tried a number of solutions that i have found on the net, but non of them have completely worked. therefore could anyone help me?


    thanks in advance,

    - User0182

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    That is actually all you need to do. If that's not working, then you have problems somewhere else. What problems are you having with it, exactly?

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    when i try to use WSAStartup(), then i get a build error. that says:

    error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WSAStartup@8 referenced in function _main

    which is why i think that the "winsock.h" library has not been included in the build. what do you think?

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    I haven't opened Visual Studio in years and I never used it for anything but Visual Basic, but as I recall there was a setting where you had to import a whole package that contained each library that you intend to reference. It's been too many years for me to tell you where to look and I have no idea how much the program has changed in that time.

    I had to do such an import myself just to reference the scripting.filesystem object.

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    that's what i was thinking, that i may have to import the header file into my project.

    but, im not sure how to do that. all the attempts that i have made have been unsuccessful ;-(.

    although, i could easily be mistaken! anyone, that has any ideas how i could resolve this problem, please let me know.
    Last edited by user0182; April 24th, 2008 at 12:54 AM.

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    thanks for your help guys, but i've worked out the answer to my own question! what i needed to do was, on the menus, go to:

    project -> properties -> "configuration properties" -> linker -> input -> "additional dependancies"

    and add "WS2_32.lib".


    - user0182

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    I'm glad you found it, I was about to tell you that the solution is not coding, but rather part of the menu interface. Anyway you solved it. Congrats!

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    It's actually a linker error. By adding the additional dependencies you're telling the linker to link the ws2_32.lib to your executable making it's functions available.
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    Don't know if this'll help you at all, but generally if the problem was that VS couldn't find the header file you would get an error along the lines of:

    "Warning C4013: 'my_func' undefined; assuming extern, returning int"

    Another way that you can get an idea of whether the issue is a compiler or a linker problem is by looking at the error codes. Compiler problems start with Cxxxx whereas linker problems start with LNKxxxx.

    A good way to get help on these problems is to search by that error code.

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