Can't create socket on Windows

Question

I have quite an embarrassing problem. The following code simply will not create a socket on Windows; it fails and displays the error message. Could anyone briefly explain why th

Answer 1

An Example:

#include 
#include 

#pragma comment(lib,"ws2_32.lib")

int _cdecl main(){
   WSADATA Data;
   int socket; // or you can use SOCKET socket
   WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &Data); // 2.2 version
   socket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
   if(udep_socket<0){
        printf("Error Creating Socket");
   }else{
        printf("Successfully Created Socket");
   }
   system("pause");
   return 0;
}