cant use winsock2 in dev-c++

[datainjector]

I tried executing a winsock2 app and it throws me this error saying "...\Include\winsock2.h:46: unbalanced `#endif'" .

Thanks
DaIn

[SyntaxBubble]

I used to use Dev-C++, but I am using MSVC++ 6.0. Anyhow, here is the fix to the problem. Open the "winsock2.h" file, and on the fourth line from the bottom it says:

ifdef __cplusplus

Change that to:

#ifdef __cplusplus


And that should fix the problem!

[Thantos]

Thanks, I've been wondering about that for a while aslo. One thing I did see on the Dev board is that #include <winsock2.h> needs to be put before #include <windows.h>