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I wanna set up a socket on a windows machine. For compilation I am using cygwin with the g++ compiler. For setting up a socket I would need the following library:

WS2_32.lib

which cannot be found on my machine. Is this part of MS SDK or can I download it for free from the web somewhere? If not, is there another way to setup a Socket without winsock.h on Windows?

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Download from the Platform SDK:

Windows® Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK

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Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5

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If you want to use native Windows sockets, switch to MinGW which is a native Windows C and C++ compiler and comes with all the required libraries.

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For Socket programming, Qt provides a high level library and under L/GPL license.

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You are looking for Beej's Guide to Network Programming: http://www.beej.us/guide/bgnet/

BTW: I am pretty sure MinGW does contain this lib (or something compatible). Are you having problems in linking? This should work "out of the box"

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He's using cygwin, not MinGW.

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