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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: My Gnat is rusty - link error
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I believe you have to specify either a linker option or put the following
pragma into your code somewhere:

    pragma Linker_Options ("-lwsock32") ;

Putting it in the code will make it harder to forget. :-)

Hope this helps.

MDC
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"Thomas Kerstan" <kerstan@home.com> wrote in message
news:3B8571D0.64268D43@home.com...
> I have GNAT 3.12 on a windows 95 machine. (the machine also
> has GNAT 3.01a but I believe that should be irrelevant)
>
> I am able to generate executables for the samples that are
> included in the win32ada/samples directory but when I try
> to compile/bind/link (using gnatmake) some code that uses
> the win32.winsock binding for sockets the compile and bind
> complete without errors, but the gnatlink gives
> undefined reference to 'WSAStartup@8'
> undefined reference to ...
> messages for all of the winsock routines.
>
> any help would be appreciated,
> thanks,
>
> Tom
> kerstan@home.com