Well I am new on the winsock scene and I am trying to get my client to connect to the server... Here is the program:
MAIN.CPP
#include "library.h"
int main()
{
// init winsock...
initwinsock();
// init sockets
cout << "Loading sockets... ";
SOCKET s = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); // Create socket
sockaddr_in addr; // the address structure for a TCP socket
addr.sin_family = AF_INET; // Address family Internet
addr.sin_port = htons (7000); // Assign port 5001 to this socket
addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl (INADDR_ANY); // No destination
if (bind(s, (LPSOCKADDR)&addr, sizeof(addr)) == SOCKET_ERROR)
{ // error
cout << "\nerror initializing sockets.\n";
system ("pause");
WSACleanup (); // unload WinSock
return 1; // quit
}
cout << "success" << endl;
//Starting to Listen...
cout << "Initializing listen server... ";
// WSAStartup () has been called
// SOCKET s is valid
// s has been bound to a port using sockaddr_in sock
if (listen(s,5)==SOCKET_ERROR)
{ // error! unable to listen
cout << "Unable to listen..." << endl;
WSACleanup ();
return 1;
}
cout << "Success" << endl;
//:D Everything works fine now.
cout << "Server has started up successfuly." << endl;
system ("pause");
WSACleanup();
}
library.h
#ifndef LIBRARY_H
#define LIBRARY_H
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <winsock2.h>
using namespace std;
int initwinsock();
helper files.cpp
#include "library.h"
int initwinsock()
{
cout << "Setting up winsock... ";
WSADATA wsaData;
if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsaData) != 0)
{
cout << "\nWSAStartup failed.\n";
system ("pause");
return 1;
}
cout << "Success" << endl;
}
and here is the client: (if it helps it is another project)
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <winsock2.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
// Initialising winsock
cout << "Setting up winsock... ";
WSADATA wsaData;
if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsaData) != 0)
{
cout << "\nWSAStartup failed.\n";
system ("pause");
return 1;
}
// Trying to connect to server...
cout << "Connecting to server... ";
SOCKET s = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); // Create socket
sockaddr_in target;
target.sin_family = AF_INET; // address family Internet
target.sin_port = htons (7000); // set server’s port number
target.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr ("127.0.0.1"); // set server’s IP
if (connect(s, target, sizeof(target)) == SOCKET_ERROR)
{ // an error connecting has occurred!
WSACleanup ();
return 1;
}
cout << "omg :D it works" << endl;
system ("pause");
return 0;
}
this is the error i get:
------ Build started: Project: test_client, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
Compiling...
Test Client.cpp
c:\documents and settings\hrd\desktop\pie\project_piston\test_client\test client.cpp(24) : error C2664: 'connect' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'sockaddr_in' to 'const sockaddr *'
No user-defined-conversion operator available that can perform this conversion, or the operator cannot be called
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\HRD\Desktop\pie\PROJECT_PISTON\test_client\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
test_client - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 1 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
:) I am new to this all and am not sure what I am doing wrong, The tut says it should be right.
Also I am using visual C++ express edition 2008 on windows XP
