Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp From: rd5718 AT irix DOT bris DOT ac DOT uk (Rich Dawe) Subject: Re: Winsock 2.0 Message-ID: Lines: 43 Sender: usenet AT fsa DOT bris DOT ac DOT uk (Usenet) Organization: University of Bristol, England References: <6himql$b2v$1 AT adonis DOT tdi DOT net> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:28:18 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Joe Osburn (joeos19 AT idt DOT net) wrote: : : My question is, how do I use DJGPP with winsock 2.0? Obviously the : wsock library and libsock library shouldn't work, because if I remeber : correctly, the use the vxd. This is correct. One way might be to use DJ Delorie's port of the Waterloo TCP/IP library (also called WATTCP) to DJGPP. I think this uses packet drivers to interface to the card. I think these packet drivers will work under Windows '95 (don't know about '98) in a DOS box. This would circumvent Winsock and go straight to the network card. I think I got some packet drivers from Crynwr Software's site at http://www.crynwr.com/, but I may have got the name wrong. From what I remember, the port is somewhere on the DJGPP FTP site in DJ Delorie's directory. I can't remember the URL, but it's somewhere off ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/. I think the DJGPP version of WATTCP is also available from it's home site (Univesity of C-something in Canada) - maybe a Yahoo! search will turn it up. : I thought maybe I could somehow work with the dll file, but I : have no experience working under dos/windows, I've only programmed for Linux : up till now. If linking (??) it with the dll file is viable, could someone : explain how I would go about doing this, or point me in the right direction? This sounds like a good alternative, and I've though about doing it before, but I don't think it's possible. Hopefully I'm wrong. Another way of doing it would be for someone to write a VxD that provides TCP/IP access to DOS boxes, but obviously this is a lot of work. Hope this helps, Rich Dawe -- ============================================================================== Rich Dawe - 3rd year Physicist @ Bristol Uni, UK E-mail: rd5718 AT bristol DOT ac DOT uk Web pages: http://irix.bris.ac.uk/~rd5718/ ==============================================================================