Hello,

Is it possible to do socket programming under win32 with FPC 1.0.10 or 1.9.4? Which unit should I check out?

If possible under win32, what about DOS?

Thanks!

Is it possible to do socket programming under win32 with FPC 1.0.10 or 1.9.4?

Yes both.

For 1.9.4 complete suites (ICS, see www.overbyte.be) are available, see in CVS projects/contrib/ics and deeper.

Which unit should I check out?

sockets, winsock

If possible under win32, what about DOS?

DOS has no networking by default, and no universal API. You will have to find/make a unit that does that. Check out the contributed units page for something from Diego de Marco (or something like that).

However this is a _lot_ more difficult.

Hello Marco,

you wrote

> Is it possible to do socket programming under win32 with FPC 1.0.10 or > 1.9.4?

MvdV> Yes both.

MvdV> For 1.9.4 complete suites (ICS, see www.overbyte.be) are available, see MvdV> in CVS projects/contrib/ics and deeper.

> Which unit should I check out?

MvdV> sockets, winsock

I can't locate docs about winsock unit, though a simple program containing it in a uses list compiles fine. I have browsed through Reference Guide 1.9 from 1.0.10 package.

Best regards,
Ivan

it's a straight c->pascal conversion of the Windows api. (which itself derives from bsd sockets).

Look for windows socket programming examples (preferably delphi), and read them, then look at the FPC winsock interface.

Is it possible to do socket programming under win32 with FPC 1.0.10 or 1.9.4? Which unit should I check out? If possible under win32, what about DOS?

For Win32 or Linux you can use my Synapse. (from my web you can download latest Synasnap version, what working with FPC 1.9.4 too).

Synapse is compatible with Delphi from version 3 (to delphi 8 for .NET!), C++Builders, Kylixes and with Freepascal, of course.