On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:57:23AM +0100, Jag wrote: > I am trying to port some socket code from AIX onto unix. AFAIK, AIX is a UNIX platform..
> When I try to link the code I get ' ld: cannot find -lsocket' > The line being executed is : > ld -dy -G -o libbridge.so bridge.o nwutil.o > jagsocket.o -Bstatic -lc -lsocket -lnsl > I have searched for socket.a and nsl.a in the cygwin directory but they > aren't there. > The makefile works on AIX and I was hoping it would be a straight forward > compilation on windows 2k. Try removing -lsocket - IIRC the socket functions are built-in in the Cygwin DLL. (You should add this as a test in your configury if you have one). HTH rlc -- "The IETF motto is 'rough consensus and running code'" -- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
