Know of any cross platform socket library (windows & Linux) in C?

Question

I am looking to do socket communications (listen, accept, connect, recv, send, disconnect) in both linux and windows. My project is in C, so unless someone can think of a way fo

Answer 1

Off-hand, I can think of four libraries:

• GLib Channels from the GLib framework can abstract socket usage, but you'll need platform-specific code for socket creation.

• libuv is a platform abstraction layer for node.js and handles, among other things, sockets and async IO.

• The Apache Portable Runtime also contains network routines.

• The Netscape Portable Runtime does socket manipulation as well.