Question

I’m using minGW on windows, trying to compile a c++ program. I’ve used sockets in there, so I’m trying to link (not include… I’ve already included winsock.h) the wsock32 library. I know that the -L switch is for linking but none of the following commands work:

g++ C:\program.cpp -Lwsock32.lib
g++ C:\program.cpp -LC:\windows\system32\wsock32.dll
g++ C:\program.cpp -lC:\windows\system32\wsock32.dll
g++ C:\program.cpp -LC:\windows\system32\wsock32.lib

what should I do??

Answer 1

The -L option is for setting the directory where the linker should look for libraries/dlls.

The -l option is for naming the libraries/dlls you want to link with.

That would mean

g++ C:\Program.cpp -LC:\Windows\System32 -lwsock32

should be the command to compile your program from your regular windows command prompt.

I suspect your compiler may look in system32 automatically, so you may want to just try to skip the -L option.