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Is there any free open source library (in C/C++) for sockets that is widely used and supports wide range of operating systems (Windows, Unix/Linux, FreeBSD etc). Just like pthreads.
Otherwise the only solution left would be to write socket wrapper for each operating system. Or would writing a wrapper against winsock and GNU C sys/socket.h libraries would be enough?
Wouldn't it be possible that I implement it against the socket library provided with GNU C. GNU C is available for wide range of platforms and my code will work in all those platforms?
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An open source library is any library with an open source license, which denotes software that is free to reuse, modify, and/or publish without permission.
A socket library is a library that implements sockets so that you can use them in your program for Internet communication.
Sockets come in two basic types—connection-oriented and connectionless.
Consider looking at boost?
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QT if it isn't too big for you. Boost has some network code as well. wxWidgets has with wxNet a network library as well. Another lib is Clanlib. And of course SDL
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