Well, my project is dead in the water until I can find another way to convert an int into a socket. Does anyone know of a third party lib I can use in visual c that handles converting ints to sockets?

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Re: Winsock2 woes
By: Xucaen to All on Wed Nov 25 2015 02:17 pm

Well, my project is dead in the water until I can find another way to convert an int into a socket. Does anyone know of a third party lib I can use in visual c that handles converting ints to sockets?

A socket descriptor is an integer (both on Windows and *nix). This is from winsock.h:

typedef u_int SOCKET;

Perhaps if you posted some sample code or more details about exactly what you're having an issue with, we could help. We've done this stuff before. :-)

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Re: Winsock2 woes
By: Xucaen to All on Wed Nov 25 2015 02:17 pm

Well, my project is dead in the water until I can find another way to convert an int into a socket. Does anyone know of a third party lib I can use in visual c that handles converting ints to sockets?

A socket descriptor is an integer (both on Windows and *nix). This is from >winsock.h:

typedef u_int SOCKET;

Perhaps if you posted some sample code or more details about exactly what >you're having an issue with, we could help. We've done this stuff before. :-)

Hi DM (may I call you DM? ;)



I have this at the top of my source file:

#pragma comment(lib, "Ws2_32.lib")
#include <WinSock2.h>



Then I have a function that writes data to the socket


void IOHandler::writeBytes(string line) const
{
cout << line;// << endl;


if (dropfile->commType == 0)
{
cout << line;
}
else if (dropfile->commType == 2)
{
int bytes = ::send((SOCKET)dropfile->handle, line.c_str(), strlen(line.c_str()), 0);
}
}


Then, I set up the program as a door using DOOR32.SYS.
I verified my read function reads the file correctly and
in my first test I got a socket handle 1480.

in SCFG I pass the door file path using %f on the command line, no IO redirection, Native Executable Yes.

When I telnet in from my other PC using SyncTerm, the game loads on the server but SyncTerm shows a blank screen
but when I run the game locally I see the correct output.


Google give me conflicting information, due to there being a winsock and a winsock2, but the above example was the best I could find using Winsock2

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Re: Winsock2 woes
By: Xucaen to All on Wed Nov 25 2015 02:17 pm

void IOHandler::writeBytes(string line) const
{
cout << line;// << endl;

if (dropfile->commType == 0)
{
cout << line;
}

ignore that first cout, that was a cut and paste error on my part when pasting the code into the text box in my browser.

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Re: Winsock2 woes
By: Xucaen to Digital Man on Thu Nov 26 2015 10:01 am

Re: Winsock2 woes
By: Xucaen to All on Wed Nov 25 2015 02:17 pm

Well, my project is dead in the water until I can find another way to convert an int into a socket. Does anyone know of a third party lib I can use in visual c that handles converting ints to sockets?

A socket descriptor is an integer (both on Windows and *nix). This is from >winsock.h:

typedef u_int SOCKET;

Perhaps if you posted some sample code or more details about exactly what >you're having an issue with, we could help. We've done this stuff before. :-)

Hi DM (may I call you DM? ;)

Yes, lots of sysops do. :-)

I have this at the top of my source file:

#pragma comment(lib, "Ws2_32.lib")
#include <WinSock2.h>

Then I have a function that writes data to the socket

void IOHandler::writeBytes(string line) const
{
cout << line;// << endl;

if (dropfile->commType == 0)
{
cout << line;
}
else if (dropfile->commType == 2)
{
int bytes = ::send((SOCKET)dropfile->handle, line.c_str(), strlen(line.c_str()), 0);
}
}

Then, I set up the program as a door using DOOR32.SYS.
I verified my read function reads the file correctly and
in my first test I got a socket handle 1480.

in SCFG I pass the door file path using %f on the command line, no IO redirection, Native Executable Yes.

When I telnet in from my other PC using SyncTerm, the game loads on the server but SyncTerm shows a blank screen
but when I run the game locally I see the correct output.

Are you calling WSAStartup()?

Did you check the return value of send()?

Have you looked at any working example code (e.g. sbbs/xtrn/sdk)?

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Re: Winsock2 woes
By: Xucaen to All on Wed Nov 25 2015 02:17 pm

Well, my project is dead in the water until I can find another way to convert an int into a socket. Does anyone know of a third party lib I can use in visual c that handles converting ints to sockets?

There's OpenDoors. http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/src/odoors/?view=tar

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Are you calling WSAStartup()?

Call him? I never met him! (Sorry, a bit of humor)

I will look into that.

Did you check the return value of send()?

At one point it was returning the correct number of bytes I was expecting.

Have you looked at any working example code (e.g. sbbs/xtrn/sdk)?

I don't have an sdk directory so I'll have to go get it, I haven't yet.



Sorry if the quoting in this message if messed up. I'm entering this on my Android phone.

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Re: Winsock2 woes
By: Xucaen to Digital Man on Thu Nov 26 2015 10:01 am

#pragma comment(lib, "Ws2_32.lib")
#include <WinSock2.h>

Then I have a function that writes data to the socket

void IOHandler::writeBytes(string line) const
{

if (dropfile->commType == 0)
{
cout << line;
}
else if (dropfile->commType == 2)
{
int bytes = ::send((SOCKET)dropfile->handle, line.c_str(), strlen(line.c_str()), 0);
}
}

Are you calling WSAStartup()?

That was it. I am now sending data over the socket. Now the real work begins. ;-)

Thanks you so much! I think when I am done I am going to document what I did and spread the word far and wide. (there were a few people askign the same questions as I on Stack Exchange and the answer always seems to be "you can't with winsock". Well, we proved them wrong. \o/

Have a great evening!

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This is interesting. According to the documentation I managed to find regarding the WSAStartup(), it says I also have to call WSACleanup().

And according to this:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms741549(v=vs.85).aspx?f=255

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