cross platform sockets

[ahoodin]

I actually suggest using the pre-processor for this.

You can :

#define MSWINDOWS 1

and later:

#ifdef MSWINDOWS
//winsock only needed for windows, not free BSD or LINUX
#pragma comment (lib, "ws2_32.lib")
#endif

using different #defines for different builds. In other words you can use seperate verbose for each OS yet in the same file with partially the same code. Just use #ifdefs where the syntax differrs.

This way you can maintain one codebase for your cross platform application.

HTH,

ahoodin

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