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Please help!!! Winsock2/Sockets with C++ Console app?
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Hello. I have been learning C++ for a while now. I know how to create C++ Console applications, and im wondering if theres any good tutorials on using Sockets/Winsock2 in C++ Console apps.
Please don't say I should learn Windows API, or MFC, I already know about those, and I will eventually get to WinAPI. But most of the tutorials I find on the internet either use Visual Basic, or Windows API/MFC with sockets.
If the Beej's sockets tutorial (Uses unix) using the extra windows thing it says in the tutorial will work with C++ Console apps, please tell me... Thanks!
P.S Can you try and tell me about Winsock2 instead of just Winsock, I've heard Winsock2 is better and more advanced.
Please don't say I should learn Windows API, or MFC, I already know about those, and I will eventually get to WinAPI. But most of the tutorials I find on the internet either use Visual Basic, or Windows API/MFC with sockets.
If the Beej's sockets tutorial (Uses unix) using the extra windows thing it says in the tutorial will work with C++ Console apps, please tell me... Thanks!
P.S Can you try and tell me about Winsock2 instead of just Winsock, I've heard Winsock2 is better and more advanced.
Last edited by Ancient Dragon; Dec 6th, 2008 at 7:28 am. Reason: removed bold and color tags
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Oh gee golly moses. This was the first in the list of google links
Don't PM me with questions -- you might get a nasty PM in response. If you have a question then post it in one of the forums.
Oh im sorry about the bold bright text and stuff in my post!! I didn't know about that rule, ill be more carefull next time...
Anyway, thanks ill check that link out!
Anyway, thanks ill check that link out!
Well I just looked at that link, and it only shows using sockets with Window API/MFC. Im looking for one that is compatible for using in a C++/C console application, not Windows apps.
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You can still use the windows API in your console application. There is no standard sockets implementation. So you need to use API calls, be it Win32 or POSIX.
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Last edited by Freaky_Chris; Dec 6th, 2008 at 3:12 pm.
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No Windows API is different. Console applications are the DOS window.
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winsock IS part of win32 api. If you are looking for more complex client/server console code then you can find it by downloading the library here
>>No Windows API is different. Console applications are the DOS window.
You don't have to write a windows program to implement some win32 api functions.
>>No Windows API is different. Console applications are the DOS window.
You don't have to write a windows program to implement some win32 api functions.
Last edited by Ancient Dragon; Dec 6th, 2008 at 3:23 pm.
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What about Unix Sockets. It says to run on Windows theres things in it that you have to change/add, but will a C++ DOS Console app run normal unix sockets under windows normally without the changes?
Oh, so can I use the Console lib under a windows app, and then use sockets with that? Or is my other comment I just replyed with true?
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DOS != UNIX therefore they are different. Therefor they need different sockets. *Win*sock is the windows socket libraries, implemented with Win32 API calls, which CAn be used with DOS console applications but NOT unix.
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