Question

I am going to be porting the 39dll libraries to Linux. This lib has been ported to Mac and IOS already and i was wondering if the sys/socket.h stuff needs to be re-written. You can find the libs in question HERE and HERE

Does anyone know? Ive done some google searching and looked at sever of the “suggested” articles to no avail. Some article suggested that it “might” work, but i need a more definitive answer.

Answer 1

Are you asking if the content of Mac OS X’s <sys/socket.h> is identical to Linux’s version? No, Mac OS X’s header is based on the BSD’s.

> man socket

SOCKET(2)                   BSD System Calls Manual                  SOCKET(2)

NAME
     socket -- create an endpoint for communication

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/socket.h>

     int
     socket(int domain, int type, int protocol);

DESCRIPTION
     Socket() creates an endpoint for communication and returns a descriptor.

     The domain parameter specifies a communications domain within which com-

If you’re asking if there’s source code compatibility between the two platforms, then yes, as long as the source code sticks to portable interfaces.

If you’re thinking of some other reason that the sockets stuff might need to be rewritten, I guess that depends on whether or not your current code meets your requirements when built for OS X.