using winsock2

[Don Clugston]

akcom wrote:
> Hello, I'm currently trying to build a project that uses winsock2 (from 
> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?WindowsAPI) but I'm having some 
> problems.
> 
> My code is very basic, something along the lines of:
> 
> import win32.core;
> import win32.windows;
> import win32.winsock2;
> 
> void main()
> {
>     WSADATA wsa;
>     WSAStartup( MAKEWORD( 2, 2 ), &wsa );
>     //nothing important
>     WSACleanup();
> }
> 
> I am building it using the following command:
> dmd -IC:\dmd\src\other -version=Win32_Winsock2 main.d ws2_32.lib
> the compiler gives the following complaints:
> main.obj(main)
>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined __init_5win328winsock27WSADATA
> main.obj(main)
>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D5win326windef8MAKEWORDFhhZt
> main.obj(main)
>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined WSASTARTUP
> main.obj(main)
>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined WSACLEANUP
> 
> if I add C:\dmd\src\other\win32\winsock2.d to the list of files to compile, 
> I get no complaints about
>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D5win326windef8MAKEWORDFhhZt
> 
> any ideas?
Do *NOT* include ws2_32.lib. It's old and very incomplete. To use the 
win32 headers, you need to download the Windows SDK from Microsoft and 
run coffimplib on the .lib files. No-one other than Walter is allowed to 
redistribute the lib files, and he hasn't done it yet, unfortunately. 
(This is something that should definitely be done before D1.0).