incompatible types when creating thread in Windows

Question

I have created an app in which I want a thread to handle listen-UDP separately and make me a buffer, but when I try to pass it to thread it says there are compatibility issu

Answer 1

Try below code that might help you..

DWORD start(LPVOID lpdwThreadParam)
{
    buffer_t *buffer = (buffer_t *)lpdwThreadParam; //Type cast your argument here
    SOCKET s;
    struct sockaddr_in server, si_other;
    int slen, recv_len;
    char buf[BUFLEN];
    WSADATA wsa;
    ...
}