[Mingw-users] WinSock2 Linking Error

[Shantanu K. <sha...@re...>]

Hi,

I tried to compile a simple program that uses WinSock2 API. (I am 
using MinGW with Dev-C++ 4.95.0.) When beginning to write the 
program, I used only WSAStartup() for initialization. But it gives 
a linker error, saying WSAStartup@8 and WSAStartup@6 not found. 
The error is same when I tried to compile+link it in VC++6.

Do I need anything other than MSVCRT.DLL? I already have 
WS2_32.DLL in the Windows system directory. I also tried passing 
the -mwindows option to g++. Any help will be very much 
appreciated.

TIA,
Shantanu