Re: [openvrml-develop] Problems including winsock2.h

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 06:29, Volker Wiendl wrote:
> I've inserted a new node into vrml97node. With this node I want to
> connect via sockets to another computer and control several things in
> the scene. I've implemented a node similar to the TimeSensor.
> Now everytime i include a file in vrml97node that include the winsock2.h, I'm
> getting lots of errors during the compilation process.
> Another guy at my university has impented an MD5 node for virtual
> charakters, so there are some errors which relating to his node. But
> in the end there are no problems until I include the winsock2.h.
> Has anyone an idea, why this happens?

I *think* you're running into the issue that Microsoft does this
silliness in some of its headers:

  #define struct interface

To work around this, after you #include <winsock2.h>, do this:

  #undef interface
 
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