Tiny C Compiler (TCC) and winsock?

Question

Can I use a socket library from TCC? I can't find any reference to winsock or sys/socket.h in the include directory.

If i remember correctly, winsock was part of the windows platform SDK (?) If so can I link that with TCC?

Bloody

Answer 1

According to Tinycc-devel mailing list

you should give this a try:

tiny_impdef winsock.dll -o winsock.def
tcc yourcode.c  winsock.def -o yourcode.exe

Angell

Found wsock32.h on google code search. It included a few others that were easily found. Worked like a charm, cheers – Bloody

@tm1rbrt how do you know it worked like a charm if you got the file from somewhere rather than use the method in the answer? btw tcc asks for winsock.h maybe renaming wsock32.h to winsock.h works If so you could put that in your own answer. And it requires common.h which isn't in there. – Affirmatory

Answer 2

1. Use tiny_impdef.exe to export definitions from the DLL file using the command line:
   tiny_impdef.exe wsock32.dll -o .\lib\wsock32.def

2. You will also need the header files for your source code to include them. MinGW's ones (such as winsock2.h, ws2tcpip.h, ws2spi.h...) can be reused with TCC.
   The MinGW compiler can be downloaded from here. Just copy the headers you need from MinGW's include directory to TCC's include\winapi directory.

3. At compilation time, you will need to tell the compiler you are using the Windows socket library:
   tcc.exe path\to\code.c -lwsock32 -o path\to\program.exe

Nereen

C:\Users\compile\Desktop\tcc>tcc.exe code.c -lwsock32 -o program.exe In file included from code.c:6: c:/users/compile/desktop/tcc/include/winapi/winsock2.h:10: error: include file '_mingw_unicode.h' not found – Merras

Used mingw-w64-v7.0.0: sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64 And tcc-0.9.27-win64-bin.zip download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/tinycc – Merras

mingw-w64-v7.0.0.zip\mingw-w64-headers\crt folder does contain _mingw_unicode.h – Merras

However dropping all the headers from mingw-w64-v7.0.0.zip\mingw-w64-headers\crt to the tcc\include does not resolve the problem and continually shows different error: – Merras

C:\Users\compile\Desktop\tcc>tcc.exe code.c -lwsock32 -o program.exe In file included from code.c:5: In file included from c:/users/compile/desktop/tcc/include/stdio.h:9: In file included from c:/users/compile/desktop/tcc/include/crtdefs.h:10: In file included from c:/users/compile/desktop/tcc/include/corecrt.h:10: In file included from c:/users/compile/desktop/tcc/include/_mingw.h:27: c:/users/compile/desktop/tcc/include/stddef.h:18: error: ';' expected (got "extern") – Merras

It seems that latest TCC compiler compiled from git repository sources code does work properly with winsocks and some other libraries. – Merras

Sorry, I haven't used TCC nor used Windows since 2013... – Nereen

Answer 3

tiny_impdef winsock.dll 

copy winsock.def to lib/

run:

tcc -lwinsock yourcode.c -o yourcode.exe

Ringleader