help.... socket

Thu Sep 30 23:42:00 GMT 1999

On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 12:15:35PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Apsmms001@aol.com wrote:
>> earnie,
>>>> I need your assistance
>>>> How come this one work on the unix machine and does not work on the bash.
>> I am still using the b19.
>>>> gcc server.c -o server -lsocket -lnsl
>>>> Message: /cygnus/b19/H-I386~1/i386-cygwin32/bin/ld.exe: cannot open 
>> -lsocket: no such file or directory.
>>>>I believe it is the fact that UNIX sockets don't exist and that you'll have to
>use the Winsock. Search the archives for other posts to this.
>>Anyone else have a better answer?

Yes. There is no "libsocket.a" library for cygwin. It's not required.
It's not a standard library and is not available on a number of UNIX
platforms.
-chris
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