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hbe02 · May 20th, 2006, 1:30 PM

Today im starting with sockets programming. im learning how to write a simple UDP client server program. so im compiling some functions which are fine but linking is the problem. apparently i have to:

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When you compile this files, make sure you link them against Ws2_32.lib.

so how do i do that? and can someone give me a little more info about why it is important to open the windows connection using WSAstartup? would this be different on other operating systems?
Thanks y'all

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Hello Sockets