Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: RSXNTDJ and export libs...
From: frenchc AT cadvision DOT com (Calvin French)
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Date: 16 Jan 98 06:17:12 GMT
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Somebody awhile back had suggested that for a DJGPP Winsock implementation, 
why not just use RSXNT and make an export lib of WSOCK32.DLL. I wish I could 
remember who this was. At any rate, I'm thouroughly tuckered out trying to 
get LIBWSOCK to work, although it did (more or less) perform as expected it 
does not seem particularily stable and from what I gather it will not 
function at all with Winsock 2.0, which is really unfortunate. Now my 
question;

I have made a LIBWS32.A from WSOCK32.DLL (right, as if THIS were the hard 
part) and now I'm just wondering, what I need to do in order to use this, if 
it's possible. The RSX documentation states that socket implementation is in 
an early alpha stage (which is no good) and to use WinSockets. This is a 
commercial (albeit reasonably priced at 40$US) lib and understandably (I 
hope) I'd really like to get a free solution. I found a DJGPP+RSXNTDJ+DX5 
package out there, I was very impressed. So it's a possibility that I could 
just use DirectPlay since someone else has already done this and it will 
accomplish what I want (and perhaps with less pain in the long run, anyways)

What else. Oh yes, Allegro. Is it still possible to use Allegro with RSXNTDJ? 
I assume I would have to make it a Win32 console app, this of course is 
really no problem since it's what I want any ways.

This DJGPP/Winsock thing has really been interesting and promises many more 
challenges up ahead for me. I apologize, I haven't really tried very much 
yet, but I thought if some have tread here before I might save some of my 
hair. But I have a lot of hair.

- Calvin -