WinSock Cross-Platform Alternative?
Author
Hi,
I'm currently learning OpenGL, and making a basic Pong game. I was planning on making it multi-player using WinSock, however I am wondering if there is a Cross-Platform alternative to WinSock that I could use instead?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
ENet is a free open-source cross-platform UDP networking library with a socket interface, its quite easy and simple to use too, so you might want to take a look at its socket interface. AFAIK, it shouldnt have much of a difference from winsock.
Good luck with your projects!
EDIT: To make it clear, its socket interface works for both TCP and UDP
Good luck with your projects!
EDIT: To make it clear, its socket interface works for both TCP and UDP
Author
Thanks to both of you!
I'm gonna try Enet first as it seems to be what I was looking for, if not I'll take a look at the forum FAQ.
Thanks again.
I'm gonna try Enet first as it seems to be what I was looking for, if not I'll take a look at the forum FAQ.
Thanks again.
You can use the plain BSD sockets, which is pretty much the normal Winsock functions that aren't prefixed with WSA* (E.g. select(), send(), recv(), socket(), etc). You'll still need to call WSAStartup and WSACleanup in Windows builds, but that shouldn't be too bad.
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