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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.
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Oh gee golly moses. This was the first in the list of google links
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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!
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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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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.
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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?
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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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