🚀 go-pugleaf

>> Why was it not required in the console app?
>
>You probably included something else that then implicitally included
>winsock.h for you.

Well I don't know where, since these 
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h> 
are the only two includes in the original functioning console program.

Which is why I previously wondered why my console program worked
without winsock.h explicitly included. 

I had previously erroneously thought (prior to your redirection)
windows.h did it.


>If you need to destroy something yourself, then you have to
>add a destructor to your code as needed.

>> When I add this is says it has already been defined.

>You probably did not define the destructor in your header file:
>
>    public:
>        __fastcall TForm1(TComponent *Owner);
>        __fastcall ~TForm1(); // <-- add this manually


At first I wondered why I would have to define the destructor in my
header file, if it was complaining that it had already been defined.

But you are right.   I added it to the header and it quit complaining
that it had already been defined.   You can see my confusion with the
error message  "ALREADY DEFINED" !   So I guess by putting one in the
header you effectively override the one the compiler would have used.


So off to further learning
Thanks