TCP connections

[olivarra1]

i've googled a lot trying to find how to make a c or c++ TCP/IP server in Windows, but i found nothing.

Then thinking and thinking i remembered that Autoit has functions to make TCP connections, and i thought asking here maybe somebody will know.

Now the question: is there any way to make a c++/c TCP server for windows?

thank you very much,

Olivarra1

[Richard Robertson]

Yes. Look up sockets.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740673%28VS.85%29.aspx

Here's a page to get you started.

[olivarra1]

Yeah, i saw that too, but idk how to get it...

maybe i need Visual C++?

i used to use DevC++ & so

olivarra1

[Richard Robertson]

It doesn't mater what editor you use. You just need the appropriate header files. If you plan on writing Windows applications, you'll need the Windows SDK. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb980924.aspx

This is a set of headers, libraries, and compiler tools for building Windows applications.

If you don't even know this much, you have more to learn about coding in C++ before you try building anything.

[monoceres]

Or he could just download Visual Studio 2008 Express which ships with the platform sdk (or windows sdk, whatever they call it). Visual Studio is also superior to Dev-Cpp in every possible way.

[jvanegmond]

Well, Dev-Cpp loads slightly faster on my machine.. : )

Probably because I have so many plugins for VS2008 though.

[Richard Robertson]

I've got a number of programs that load faster than Visual Studio, but most aren't as feature rich.

[olivarra1]

Oh well, i just have 1 year programming in c++, i learned in university, using linux for making console applications.

I've never done a windowed app., but i don't want to do that. just i want to do a console-like app. (that you run it with cmd).

what i mean:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main(){
  cout << "hello, how're u?" << endl;
  string response;
  cin >> response;
  return 0;
}

Then including If's, For's, While's, some classes, etc..

and what i want to do it's just a game server, the game is made with Flex + Flash.

Right now i've made the server in PHP, but i wonder if in C++ would be faster and use less memory.

olivarra1

edit: ohh btw, i've found how to include the sockets library. now i just need to see how does it works (functions that it has, etc.)

Edited September 5, 2009 by olivarra1

[Nutster]

Yeah, you want to look at network sockets. In particular you want to create a network listener. A quick search turned up this site which talks about setting up a listener in Linux. The Windows implementation is based on the Unix implementation, so most of this should work or at least give you ideas about what you need to do. Also, this site gives a pretty good explanation of what happens during client-server operations and gives some coding tips.

[Quafboy]

Download the source code for netcat. This should be a good reference for rolling your own prog. But don't directly steal code because A. it's wrong and b. antivirus will flag it for similarities to netcat.