[Mingw-users] [newbie]cross-compile winsock32-program

[Jan <li...@ka...>]

Greetings,

I'm quite knew to mingw and windows programming. (Linux is quite a nice world, 
but sometimes a pointy-hairy-boss...)
However, I'm ought to built a Windows Application. I installed mingw32 on my 
debian sarge and tried to built a C++ Binary.
I tried:
i586-mingw32msvc-c++ -lwsock32 main3.cpp -o main3.o -mwindows

c++ says:
/tmp/ccd9MJKx.o(.text+0x191):main3.cpp: undefined reference to `_WSAStartup@8'
/tmp/ccd9MJKx.o(.text+0x1a2):main3.cpp: undefined reference to `_socket@12'
/tmp/ccd9MJKx.o(.text+0x1bd):main3.cpp: undefined reference to `_htons@4'
...

etc.
Somehow ld fails linking to wsock32... 
What's wrong here?

Keep smiling
yanosz