[Live-devel] Annoying "C" Linkage Problem under MSVC - _close()

[Ross Finlayson]

>Finally got around to implementing some custom classes to stream MPEG4 A/V
>directly from an encoder. In doing so I ran into an annoying problem where
>MSVC whined about "a second C Linkage" of the _close(int) function.
>
>Looking at the code it is plain to see that _close is redefined in
>NetCommon.h depending on linux or windows compile. This is done as you
>cannot "close()" a socket in windows as you can in linux, as files and
>socket FD's are not interchangable.

FYI, this is true for all Unix systems - not just Linux.

>In my local tree I changed this define to be:
>
>// windows
>#define CloseSocket closesocket
>
>// Linux
>#define CloseSocket close
>
>And replaced all instances of _close with CloseSocket
>
>My problem of "Multiple C Linkage" went away and I now feel more comfortable
>with a cleaner namespace :)

OK, I'll make this change (actually, I'll probably use "closeSocket" 
instead of "CloseSocket") in the next release of the software.


	Ross Finlayson
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