Compile problems from Linux to OS X

[BeatMaster]

I'm trying to do my networks assignment in C which was originally compiled with no problems at university on Red Hat Linux. It involves sockets so I need to include sys/sockets.h but everytime I compile in terminal I get errors

Although, I tried with XCode and when I build the files they build with no errors but it doesn't produce compiled files I must be doing something wrong, but not sure exactly what

Any ideas?

BeatMaster

 

[BeatMaster]

johns-computer:~/desktop/sockets john$ gcc client.c -o client
client.c: In function 'main':
client.c:49: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'strlen'
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_close_socket
_connect_sockets
_create_socket
_recv_data
_send_data
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status



BeatMaster

 

[BeatMaster]

Firstly include string.h to fix strlen warning, then try compile with,
gcc client.c -o client -lsocket

Almost...

johns-computer:~/desktop/sockets john$ gcc client.c -o client -lsocket
/usr/bin/ld: can't locate file for: -lsocket
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Cheers for help

BeatMaster

 

[BeatMaster]

Weird it should be in /usr/include/sys/socket.h .. Can you check to see if it even exists? If it is in a weird location your gonna need to pass the path as a linker option. If its missing I guess you are lacking dev libraries... though I would have thought they would have got installed when you installed gcc/xcode.

Yep, socket.h exactly where you said Hmm...don't know what on earth is the problem

BeatMaster

 

[BeatMaster]

Solved! Was compiler issues with GCC Version 4. Installed 3.4 and now none of the errors coming up All credit to my girlfriend though, she was the one who suggested that it might be the compiler at fault.

Cheers for all the help the Una, still solve the strlen problem

Can get on with networks assignment now

BeatMaster