Re: libpq not working

* Stefan Nobis <stefan@snobis.de> [2002-04-07 14:29 +0200]:
> C:\Eigene Dateien\dbtest>t
> Connection failed!
>  connectDBStart() -- socket() failed: errno=0
> No error

On Windows, you need to call WSAStartup before you can use any sockets:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcecomm/htm/winsock_13.asp

I experienced exactly this problem in my first win32 libpq program, too.

Hmm. OTOH, this should be done automagically in libpqdll.c. Maybe I
linked statically at the time.

Gerhard
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