IPX headers

[Simon Sasburg]

Hmm, bummer...

Well, after a bit of fiddling i got it to link with winsock even when
compiling with cygwin.
Not exactly what i wanted..., but heh, it works...

Simon

On 2/14/07, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Feb 14 20:43, Simon Sasburg wrote:
> > Ok so i'm trying to port a C winsock ipx application of mine to cygwin.
> >
> > problem is i can't find the needed IPX constants (or headers that contain
> > them).
> >
> > with winsock this works:
> >    SOCKET ipx_sock = socket(AF_IPX, SOCK_DGRAM, NSPROTO_IPX);
> > when including
> >    #include <winsock2.h>
> >    #include <Wsipx.h>
> >
> > now in cygwin it can't find the AF_IPX and NSPROTO_IPX constants (i
> > typedeffed SOCKET to int already)
> [...]
> > from looking around google i found that these constants might be found
> > in these headers on a 'real' unix system :
> >    #include <net/ipx.h>
> >    #include <linux/ipx.h>
> >    #include <netipx/ipx.h>
> >
> > but when compiling with cygwin it can't find any of these headers.
> >
> > Where might the needed headers/constants be found on a cygwin system?
> > do i need to install any special packages for this?
>
> These headers don't exists.  Cygwin doesn't support IPX, sorry.
>
>
> Corinna
>
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