Cross Platform Socket Programming?

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07-14-2005
CrazyNorman

Cross Platform Socket Programming?

I've been doing C++ for several weeks, and find it a refreshing change over high level languages. Just about everything is great, except for lack of information on cross platform sockets. I've seen several libraries such as SDL_Net, but what is the standard socket library used for a cross-platform application (Windows, Linux) ?
07-14-2005
JoshR

Sorry to be off topic but C++ is a high level language.

Check tutorials, they use winsock.
07-15-2005
CrazyNorman

Sorry, I meant to say higher level languages. I know that C++ is high level, but I meant in comparison to the likes of Python or VB. Maybe I'm missing something, but Winsock stands for Windows Socket. From what I've seen on google, Winsock is for Windows, and is not available on Linux or Mac OSX, hence the name. So, is Winsock actually cross-platform, and if so, can you point me to a link which has the header files for non Windows operating systems, and if not, can you point me to a commonly used cross-platform socket library?
07-15-2005
JoshR

O right cross...forgot you said that.

Check out this tutorial:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/g...tml/index.html
07-15-2005
CrazyNorman

I never realized how similar Unix sockest were to Winsock. Thanks for everything.
07-15-2005
karlan

BSD pretty much invented TCP/IP, so you can count on that being portable, but anything else(eg raw sockets) is going to be a little technical ****er.

Windows even includes a BSD copyright in it. At least in 98 it did ;)
07-15-2005
Xipher

Their are a few differences, but their are some crossplatform libs out there, that can take care of it for you. Common C++ is one that I have looked at, and I know wxwidgets includes some socket classes as well.

Also, even between various OS's, you can find differences, such as between FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Linux, etc, they all have little differences. Thats one of the things I have learned about with reading Unix Network Programming.
07-17-2005
CrazyNorman

Thanks for the pointers. I'll look into those too.
07-19-2005
kungtotte

Quote:

Originally Posted by karlan

BSD pretty much invented TCP/IP, so you can count on that being portable, but anything else(eg raw sockets) is going to be a little technical ****er.

Windows even includes a BSD copyright in it. At least in 98 it did ;)

Windows includes the BSD TCP/IP stack, I don't think this has changed or is likely to change any time soon.

That is the reason for the BSD copyright notice.