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davr
davr

Reputation: 19147

BSD socket compatible wrapper around winsock?

I'm attempting to port a Linux application to Windows. The application isn't too complex, using all fairly standard code, with few external dependencies. The main dependencies are libelf (which compiles fine under mingw), pthreads (there appears to be a win32 version available), and sockets. The main problem is with sockets...Windows provides WinSock, but this is not 100% compatible with BSD (Berkeley) sockets as used by all *nixes. What I'm wondering is, has anybody written a wrapper on windows that exposes a BSD socket API, but calls Winsock on the backend, to ease porting?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2574

Answers (2)

Maister
Maister

Reputation: 5054

For the most part, you'll just have to make sure that WSAStartup() and WSACleanup() are called at start and end, otherwise, basic BSD sockets will translate pretty well. You could create some static global variable that gets checked for each call to the socket calls, and call WSAStartup() and WSACleanup() accordingly. As for poll() ... well, it translates quite easily to select().

Upvotes: 1

MandoMando
MandoMando

Reputation: 5515

I would recommend using cygwin.dll . It's built for bringing over *nixes to windows including sockets, file IO, etc.

Upvotes: 1

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