Thread: Problem when I'm using libpq PQconnectdb function
I compile a C program which uses libpq on Win 32. When call PQconnectdb function and retrieves error message (PQerrorMessage), this is error function returns: "could not create socket: WSAStartup not yet called (0x0000276D/10093)" I don't know what error means. I appreciate some help. Best Regards. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:21:50PM -0800, Daniel Gerardo Lucero Baylon wrote: > I compile a C program which uses libpq on Win 32. > > When call PQconnectdb function and retrieves error message (PQerrorMessage), > this is error function returns: > > "could not create socket: WSAStartup not yet called (0x0000276D/10093)" > > I don't know what error means. The error means that WSAStartup has not yet been called. And that means that you must call WSAStartup before you try to create a socket. That's what the message says. It's a Windows-specific problem that doesn't exist on other systems. These are generic C/C++/Windows programming problems, so this is not really the right place to bring them up... Jeroen
> I compile a C program which uses libpq on Win 32. > > When call PQconnectdb function and retrieves error message > (PQerrorMessage), this is error function returns: > > "could not create socket: WSAStartup not yet called > (0x0000276D/10093)" > > I don't know what error means. > > I appreciate some help. If you use the libpqdll importl ibrary (and thus dynamically link to libpq.dll instead of the static library), it should get called automatically for you. Or if you want to use the static library, your program needs to call WSAStartup() before it uses any libpq functions. This is rqeuired for all win32 applications that need to use the windwos sockets API. You can find information about how to call the function at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winsock /winsock/wsastartup_2.asp //Magnus