Problems with WinSocks2 library in C++

Hi, can you send your Makefile?

Yes, we can’t say much without the Makefile, but I can tell you that you shouldn’t just add that “thing” anywhere in the Makefile. Usually you add it to LDFLAGS (or perhaps CXXFLAGS) in there. But it kind of depends how the Makefile is structured.

I couldn’t find the make file, so I ended by downloading VS and adding: #pragma comment(lib,"ws2_32.lib")

So, I wouldn’t use #pragma. I don’t know how it works in your case but I know that when you use #pragma once in the headers files, it might screwed up with include path depending on how you write it (I let you search on SO if that interests you), so I would rather recommend a basic ifndef against the double inclusion. So be sure of what you do if you use pragma.

Second, maybe you can create your own Makefile, there are good tutorials on Internet I guess. If you need to include a .h in a specific location you should use -I option (an upper case i) to specify the directory of all possible .h. If I remind well, -L is a linker option and you should put it after filenames when you compile : g++ compiler_args files linker_args

Here is one of my old makefile if it can help you:
```SRC = main.cpp \
src/DB.cpp \
src/Table.cpp

OBJ = $(SRC:%.cpp=%.o)

NAME = orm

CXX = g++
CXXFLAGS = -I ./ -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Werror -std=c++14

RM = rm -f

all: $(NAME)

$(NAME): $(OBJ)
$(CXX) $(OBJ) -o $(NAME) -lmysqlcppconn

clean:
$(RM) $(OBJ)

fclean: clean
$(RM) $(NAME)

re: fclean all
```