Portable lightweight C++ sockets wrapper

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I need a portable c++ sockets wrapper. I\'m planning to use it for a windows server application and a client that w

Answer 1

Old question, but for C++, BSD style synchronous sockets this is about as minimal baggage wrapper as you can find http://code.google.com/p/ting/source/browse/trunk/src/ting/net/

It does come with exceptions. You could make a bit more lightweight one as a header-only template library, and maybe make exceptions optional, but that would change the API a bit

POCO network classes are quite similar, but do require more dependencies from other parts of the Poco lib