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Hi all,
I installed mingw and code::blocks on my computer. While trying to learn the basis of network programming, I got an error message that “could not find -lwsock32.lib”. so I searched this file on my computer and find that it does not exist. I googled and find a remedy that to download the Microsoft platform SDK. Do I need to install Microsoft platform SDK? Are there any other options to get this library files?
Thanks and regards,
Thomas
There is no reason NOT to download/install the SDK. It will contain other necessary "stuff" if you want to develop for Windows, so you'll be happy to have it. Is there any particular reason you don't want to do so?
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Mats
I thought mingw have its own SDK. May be this thought is a foolishness.
Thanks for your reply.
No, that's the entire point of "Minimal Gnu for Windows (mingw)" - it uses publicly available ("free") Windows components as much as it can.Quote:
Originally Posted by thomas_joyee
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Mats
Wouldn't it be called libwsock32.a?
Open the Code::Blocks project file in Code::Blocks. Go to Project->Build Options and select the target (should be Release and Debug). Under "Linker Settings" add "wsock32" without any extension. This should link to libwsock32.a
No, because it uses the standard Windows version of libraries, and they are called .lib.Quote:
Originally Posted by 39ster
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Mats
Thanks for your clarification :)
I found another solution that use the “dlltool” to export library files. How about it?
There's a file called libwsock32.a that comes with the Code::Blocks/Mingw package. I didn't even think you could use .lib files in mingw.Quote:
Originally Posted by matsp
In modern Windows compilers, .lib and .a files are exactly the same thing. That means that you can just take a .lib file, rename it to lib*.a, and link to it with MinGW's gcc/g++! :)
[edit] I'm not completely certain about this, but I read it somewhere and it seemed to work with SDL_image. [/edit]