FreeTDS Development Group

[Gal Rubinstein <galrub AT gmail.com>]

 On 9/21/2010 3:25 PM, Gal Rubinstein wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> the after looking into the socket problem it accrued to me that I 
> forgot to mention an important fact, I'm using windows 7.
> RAW sockets have been limited on this version of windows!
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740548(VS.85).aspx 
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740548%28VS.85%29.aspx>
>
> on a different site 
> (http://cs.baylor.edu/~donahoo/practical/CSockets/practical/ 
> <http://cs.baylor.edu/%7Edonahoo/practical/CSockets/practical/>) a 
> different socket connection method is used, using connect().
> the function called is :int connect(int socket, const struct sockaddr* 
> addr, int addrlen)
>
> since I'm quite a beginner in C++, can anyone add this alternative to 
> the net.c source, maybe surround it with a #ifdef.
>
> Thanks a lot...
>
> PS: cant wait to move to linux with this project, only after we show a 
> WIN7 version can we move on... damn!
on the page 
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2010q2/025891.html....
 INITSOCKET() did the trick!!!