Networking. (YASD)

[Hellfire]

Networking demo. (Yet Another Simple Demo)

• The server will open port 4000
• The client will connect to port 4000
• The server sends a nice message to the client
• The client displays the message on the console
• Both programs terminate

And best of all: sources are included and it runs both on Linux and Windows.

To compile with MinGW on windows:

g++ -o client.exe client.cpp -lws2_32
g++ -o server.exe server.cpp -lws2_32

To compile on linux:

g++ -o client client.cpp
g++ -o server server.cpp

Enjoy.

Why is this usefull? Let's see:[list][*]Activity! There hasn't been any for months.
[*]Cross platform!
[*]The networking threshold is crossed, so we'll never have to look at this problem again.[/list]

[Zuu]

Thanks for breaking the silence.

I'd played a bit with the code, but nothing advanced.

[Hyronymus]

Indeed worth a BIG thanks, Hellfire. I think I fall into the category who will run the exe from a console .

[DominionSpy]

Networking demo. (Yet Another Simple Demo)

• The server will open port 4000
• The client will connect to port 4000
• The server sends a nice message to the client
• The client displays the message on the console
• Both programs terminate

And best of all: sources are included and it runs both on Linux and Windows.

Am I right in saying that this is only if you have MinGW?
If so, this is a great thing to get the project back on track , but I would think that we'll have to take out the MinGW dependency asap.
If not, klasse!

[Hellfire]

Am I right in saying that this is only if you have MinGW?
If so, this is a great thing to get the project back on track , but I would think that we'll have to take out the MinGW dependency asap.
If not, klasse!

I'm not sure. I've compiled it with MinGW, but I think it will work with MS Visual C++ or some Borland equivalent as well. It might need a few changes but those are just minor things.

In fact, I had to do some strange things to get the networking support to work on both Linux and Windows:

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#ifdef WIN32
  #include <winsock2.h>
#else
  #include <sys/sockets.h>
  #include <arpa/inet.h>

etc.

(Yes, MinGW needs Winsock for IP support...)