Can someone point me to the documentation for the winsock unit? It doesn't appear to exist in the html docs, nor in the pdf doc either. A google search turned up nothing. The unit exists in the source tree, I have it installed, but where is the doc??

I have fpc-2.0.2 running on Linux, and have the complete lib/units/i-386-win32 library as well. In the windows rtl directory there are other units, besides winsock; like windows, wincrt, winevent, winmouse .... Where are the docs for these??

TIA

Bob

Bob Richards wrote

I have fpc-2.0.2 running on Linux

WinSock = "Windows Sockets" Linux Sockets ?

You might want to look at some of the abstraction libs available, such as Synapse.

also, and i'm not sure about this, as i've been meaning to ask, but i think the stuff in the "Sockets" unit is meant to be a cross platform sockets API ?

anyone know about this ?

i'm going to be doing some (hopefully) cross platform socket stuff soon.

Bob

Tony

I did some socket programming on win32 recently and also first looked at the Sockets unit.
I think that you are right that this unit is meant to be a cross platform unit. But I found that it didn't work on win32, may be be hasn't been finished yet. So I used the Winsock unit, which makes it possible to call the win32 API's as documented by microsoft.

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