[LCP]Problem with GNU C sockets

[Greg Black]

On 2003-09-08, James McLean wrote:

> The basic C structure is not a problem, but I have been looking at the 
> GNU C Sockets documentation to learn how to program the sockets, and 
> borrowed the example outlined on the site.

You should read the man page for socket(2) and all the other
pages that it leads you to.

> /usr/include/sys/socket.h:52: syntax error before `sa_family_t'

Errors like the above always mean that you forgot to include
<sys/types.h> ...

> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>

#include <sys/types.h>	/* required *before* sys/socket.h */
> #include <sys/socket.h>
> #include <netinet/in.h>
> #include <netdb.h>

There are other bugs, but this will get you started.  But in
future, read the relevant man pages before posting questions.

Cheers, Greg

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Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> <http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html>
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