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Babu Anil
Babu Anil

Reputation: 23

Does Ubuntu 14.04 support SCTP by default

I am developing an application that will make use of some of the sctp APIs like sctp_bindx, sctp_connectx etc.

My Linux kernel version is 3.13.0-49-generic .

If I try to compile my code , I get the below error

fatal error: netinet/sctp.h: no such file or directory.

If I install lksctp-tools package then my code got compiled.

Can I use the APIs without installing any libsctp library ? Since I read that SCTP is supported by the kenal version > 2.1

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1660

Answers (1)

o11c
o11c

Reputation: 16056

All functions require some library. It just happens that glibc is automatically used whenever you use gcc.

SCTP-specific functions are not included in glibc itself, so you need to install and use the sctp library. The fact that kernel supports SCTP is irrelevant here.

Upvotes: 1

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