winsock compiling error, it cant find the addrinfo structures and some relating functions

Question

I\'ve just started learning winsock through the \"Beej\'s guide to network programming\" book. I\'m programming under windows and running it through gcc. This is just a star

Answer 1

Beware! Your includes are wrong. The problem is that windows.h already includes winsock.h and winsock2.h then re-defines some structures and functions resulting in huge number of compilation errors. Move the windows.h include below the winsock2.h include, or just remove the windows.h include altogether, winsock2.h includes windows.h.