Well, Win32 has it's own version of berkeley-ish sockets called
Winsock. Programming against it is not too difficult and most of the code will
be pretty portable, get ready for a lot of #ifdef though.
Not to sound like a Java envangelist ,which I suppose is better than a Windows
evangelist that I've often been accused of being, but is there
some reason why you need to use C/C++? Most of the interfaces for sockets in
C/C++ are very low level and do require a lot of learning.
If you can do it with Java, I'm completely sold on using it for server-side
programming. Also consider that you'll get cross-platform threading, which
might be important if you're implementing a server of any kind.
Anyways, something to consider.
For C++, there's a very nice library called socket++ which abstracts
away some of the socket stuff. It's only available for Unix platforms but you
might be able to get it to work on Win32 as well.
Cheng
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> well, i will be assuming for the time being that the majority of the clients
> will be using a win32 os. i, however, do use linux and i would like the
> server to be cross.platform complient at least across linux [x86/alpha] and
> solaris. is the implementation of this difficult? i assumed perhaps
> prematurely that if i did my coding in c/c++ that there would be little work
> involved porting my project to another platform. am i completely out of line
> here?
>
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> Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 9:29 PM
> Subject: Re: network programming
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> >dextro writes:
> >> this isnt directly related to linux but might touch on it a bit. does
> anyone
> >> have any in depth resources for cross.platform network programming?
> >
> >Cross which platforms? If you mean TCP/IP across Unixishy machines,
> >than Rich Stevens' books (both Unix Network Programming and Unix
> >System Programming) are very good.
> >
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