Question

I need to quickly implement a very small C or C++ TCP server/client solution. This is simply to transfer literally an array of bytes from one computer to another – doesn’t need to be scalable / over-complicated. The simpler the better. Quick and dirty if you can.

I tried to use the code from this tutorial, but I couldn’t get it to build using g++ in Linux: http://www.linuxhowtos.org/C_C++/socket.htm

If possible, I’d like to avoid 3rd party libraries, as the system I’m running this on is quite restricted. This must be C or C++ as the existing application is already implemented.

Thanks to emg-2‘s answer, I managed to make the above mentioned code sample compatible with C++ using the following steps:

Add these headers to both client and server:

#include <cstdlib> #include <cstring> #include <unistd.h> 

In server.c, change the type of clilen to socklen_t.

int sockfd, newsockfd, portno/*, clilen*/; socklen_t clilen; 

In client.c, change the following line:

if (connect(sockfd,&serv_addr,sizeof(serv_addr)) < 0) { ... } 

To:

if (connect(sockfd,(const sockaddr*)&serv_addr,sizeof(serv_addr)) < 0) 

Answer 1

I’ve used Beej’s Guide to Network Programming in the past. It’s in C, not C++, but the examples are good. Go directly to section 6 for the simple client and server example programs.