Sockets under Windows

[Tord Romstad]

Hi all,

I have a simple Windows programming question: Is the standard Berkeley socket API available in Windows, and does it work exactly as in Unix? Is there anything in particular to be aware of when writing portable TCP server software, or can I just go ahead and write standard Unix code, and expect everything to work without changes under Windows?

Tord

[Arash]

Hi,

In Windows world, equivalent of Berkeley socket API is Winsock API, But not exactly. Winsock is modeled after Berkeley socket API, but some changes are necessary.

Please see the following links:
1-Client:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx
2-Server:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx


Arash

[Tord Romstad]

Thanks, Arash!

That looks a little more different than I had hoped, but not at all unmanagable.

Tord

[ilari]

Maybe you should consider using some cross-platform abstraction library. Boost for example, if you're using C++: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/do ... _asio.html

[rreagan]

Thanks, Arash!

That looks a little more different than I had hoped, but not at all unmanagable.

Tord

It's pretty standard "Microsoft brain damange" (as Tim Mann correctly put it) I recently updated Internet Explorer on a Windows XP computer, and it broke all printing (because the printer driver should be dependent on the internet browser, right...?)