Re: [Mingw-users] undefined reference to `inet_aton' in WIndows/mingw

[John Brown <johnbrown105@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>
> I'm porting a simple Unix program, that uses sockets, to Windows with the use
> of wingw gcc.
>
> I'm getting a linker error "undefined reference to `inet_aton'" when I
> compile my program:
>
> \mingw\bin\gcc -o ir2diskc ir2diskc.c -lsw2_32
>
> Do I need to link with some other library in addition to sw2_32 or is
> inet_aton() simply not available in Windows?

Windows Sockets are not exactly the same as Berkeley Sockets.

> If it is the latter how do you convert an address to binary in Windows?
>

Try the Windows Sockets 2 documentation in MSDN at:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms740673.aspx
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