[Live-devel] About ws2_32.lib

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live.com
Fri Feb 18 17:20:39 PST 2005


At 05:13 PM 2/18/05, you wrote:
>I have other codes using functions like WSA???? of ws2_32.lib. But the 
>makefile of Groupsock said that wsock32.lib should be used instead. Is it 
>true? Has Microsoft fixed those bugs?
>
>
># The following definition ensures that we link with "wsock32.lib"
># rather than "ws2_32.lib".  For some reason, the standard Berkeley
># socket calls for multicast don't work properly with "ws2_32.lib".
>TARGETOS = WIN95

You seem to be using a (very) old version of the code, or else a (very) old 
version of the "win32config" file that's used - by "genWindowsMakefiles" - 
to generate Makefiles for Windows.

Upgrade to the latest version of the code, and run "genWindowsMakefiles" again.


	Ross Finlayson
	LIVE.COM
	<http://www.live.com/>



More information about the live-devel mailing list