Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:28:33 -0400 To: Earnie Boyd Cc: Apsmms001@aol.com, cygwin users Subject: Re: help.... socket Message-ID: <19990921162833.C1417@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: Earnie Boyd , Apsmms001@aol.com, cygwin users References: <19990921191535.19718.rocketmail@web129.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990921191535.19718.rocketmail@web129.yahoomail.com>; from Earnie Boyd on Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 12:15:35PM -0700 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com