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HenkKaasman
HenkKaasman

Reputation: 55

TCP Socket Client - Redefinition Errors

So I'm making a TCP socket client in C (the TCP server in java is already up and running), but I have a few errors. Firstly here is some of my code:

#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h> //for exit
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>  //for sockaddr_in and inet_addr() #include netinet/in.h
#include <W5500/w5500.h>
#include "mnWizSpi.h"   //PacketMaker() and BSB()
#include <linux/in.h> //for socket(), inet_addr(), send(), ect.

int main(void) {
    struct sockaddr_in servAddr; //Server address
    int prtno = 1234;

    //int prtno = atoi(argv[2]);
    if ((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) { //AF_INET = TCP, AF_LOCAL = local to host
        perror("Could not open socket.");
        exit(1);
    }

    servAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;                  //Internet Address Family (2 for TCP)
    servAddr.sin_port = htons(prtno);               //Server Port

    if(connect(sock, (struct sockaddr*)&servAddr, sizeof(servAddr)) < 0) {
        perror ("Failed Connection");
        exit(1);
    }

    //when connected to the java server, the java server will ask for a handshake
    bzero(buffer, 256);
    int n = recv(sock, buffer, 255 , 0);
    if(n < 0)
    {
        perror("Failed to read message");
        exit(1);
    }

    //write message to server
    int n = send(sock, msg, strlen(msg), 0);
    if(n < 0)
    {
        perror("Failed to write message");
        exit(1);
    }
    return 0;
}

The errors I get are redefinition errors, coming from linux/in.h

redefinition of 'struct group_filter'
redefinition of 'struct group_req'
redefinition of 'struct group_source_req'
redefinition of 'struct in_addr'

ect. Those along with 34 redefined errors. These dissappear when I comment #include , but when I do that I get some undefined reference errors.

undefined reference to 'connect'
undefined reference to 'htons'
undefined reference to 'recv'
undefined reference to 'send'
undefined reference to 'socket'

I have tried other headers that have such functions, but they would end up with the same errors.

I did check the header files on include guards 

#ifndef _LINUX_IN_H 
#define _LINUX_IN_H 

/* header content */

#endif /* _LINUX_IN_H */

and they all seem to be fine.

What am I doing wrong / how can I fix this?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I work in a ubuntu VM

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1610

Answers (1)

deimus
deimus

Reputation: 9893

You are including #include <arpa/inet.h> header, the documentation of which says

Inclusion of the <arpa/inet.h> header may also make visible all symbols 
from <netinet/in.h> and <inttypes.h>.

The conflict of netinet/in.h and linux/in.h headers is a known issue.

Checkout following thread for possible solution with macros

Upvotes: 3

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