[Mingw-users] undefined reference to `WSAStartup__FUsP7WSAData@8'

[dheeraj <dhe...@fl...>]

 I am wrtting a small application in c++ ( I am using dev-c++ IDE) to =
ping hosts. But I am getting the error
 c:\dev-c_~1\dheeraj\projec~1\maincpp.o(.text+0x268):maincpp.cpp: =
undefined reference to `WSAStartup__FUsP7WSAData@8'
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 I also did the following:-
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 #ifdef __cplusplus
   extern "C" {
   #endif
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 #include <winsock.h>
   #ifdef __cplusplus
   }
   #endif
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 But no result..
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 Please help me out
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