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

I don't know one library that complies both Windows and Linux but I think winsock is similar enough to Linux socket programming.

In particular it supplies you 'select()' and the other functions mentioned. I guess you will need a very thin #ifdef wrapper to avoid type casting warnings.

See here the winsock page for select

Answer 2

check HS Sockets C Source Library for Windows and Linux

Answer 3

The plibsys library provides all the requested features: cross-platform and portable, lightweight, provides socket IPv4 and IPv6 support as well as many other useful things like multithreading. Works with sockets in non-blocking mode (though you can switch to a blocking one, too). Has quite a good documentation with the test code examples.

Answer 4

The Boost library includes these features.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

Ptlib provides cross platform C++ code that works well for sockets. www.opalvoip.org

Copes nicely with threads. Some support for mac and BSD. Under active development and maintainance. MPL Core library in Ekiga - the preferred desktop app that does SIP & H.323

For windows - it compiles with MSVC. for linux, it compiles with gcc autoconf make etc.

OK, it is C++, but you can work with that... Have a the source inside ptlib/samples - there are many examples of using ptlib there.