mingw32 and winsocks

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Marcel,

Marcel Moj¾i¹ wrote:
> I have a question about using winsocks with mingw32. I compiled libpq
> frontend library using mingw32 (gcc 2.95). There was no problem with the
> [...]
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <windows.h>
> 
> void main() {
>         if (gethostbyname("www.microsoft.com") == NULL) {
>                 printf("failed...");
>         }
> }

I think you are missing a call to WSAStartup() here to initialize
WinSock.

so long, benny
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Benjamin Riefenstahl (benny@crocodial.de)
Crocodial Communications GmbH
Ruhrstr. 61, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany

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