Sockets in MinGW

Question

I was just trying to build netcat in MSYS using MinGW and realized that MinGW never really ported all of the BSD socket stuff to Windows (eg sys/socket.h). I know you can u

Answer 1

BSD sys/socket.h is a POSIX header and the win32 API doesn't support it. MinGW headers are just a reimplementation of native win32 headers and don't offer additional POSIX compatibility.

If you are looking for sys/socket.h support, try either GNU gnulib's sys/socket.h replacement or go with Cygwin, which provides a POSIX compatibility wrapper on Windows.