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[Dako300]

I am having some trouble compiling a little program I found on the internet. it has no errors but it does have a lot of undefined references (about 20) to things. Here are the errors.:

Compiling: C:\Users\Daniel\Desktop\main.cpp
Linking console executable: bin\Release\Networking.exe
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x24): undefined reference to `_WSAStartup@8'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x50): undefined reference to `_WSACleanup@0'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x78): undefined reference to `_socket@12'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0xb3): undefined reference to `_WSACleanup@0'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0xd2): undefined reference to `_WSACleanup@0'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x10d): undefined reference to `_send@16'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x144): undefined reference to `_recv@16'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x168): undefined reference to `_closesocket@4'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x23c): undefined reference to `_listen@8'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x269): undefined reference to `_WSACleanup@0'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x293): undefined reference to `_accept@12'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x2bf): undefined reference to `_accept@12'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x2f3): undefined reference to `_inet_addr@4'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x309): undefined reference to `_htons@4'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x333): undefined reference to `_bind@12'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x360): undefined reference to `_WSACleanup@0'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x3b3): undefined reference to `_inet_addr@4'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x3c9): undefined reference to `_htons@4'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x3f3): undefined reference to `_connect@12'
obj\Release\C\Users\Daniel\Desktop\Socket.o:Socket.cpp:(.text+0x420): undefined reference to `_WSACleanup@0'

I think I am not giving the linker the correct -l statements. the linker settings are -mwindows and thats it.

[kernelcoder]

Can you show the code here? The linking errors are because linker is not able to find the library/DLL for all those API the code used.

However, it seems you are trying with Visual Studio, right? If yes, you just need to properly apply linker settings to link to 'Ws2_32.lib'. To do that read the tutorial here -- go to section 'How to Link to 3'rd Party Libraries'