Re: Linker Error

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 15:17

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Patrick Wong wrote:

>I try to call some Winsock APIs in a thread of my application.  It fails to
>be built for:
>
>[Linker Error] Unresolved external 'WSAIoctl' referenced from
>D:\PROJECTS\SNIFFER\SNIFFERTHREAD.OBJ

Remove Winsock.lib, and add  Ws2_32.lib  to your project or link step

>Comment out the call to WSAIoctl() will eliminate the problem.  Winsock
>should be dynamic linking, so why the link time error will be caused?  And
>why not other call like WSAStartup() causing the same problem?

WSAIoctl is a Socket2 call. All the other calls are compatable with
the original Socket (Winsock.dll) You need to replace the older
winsock.lib with the new ws2_32 version in your project/linker.

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