Re: [Boost-users] [asio]Winsock.h

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Commander Pirx wrote:

I was struggling with this problem too. Include before and all works fine.

"Robert Jones" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:4efd67eb0907070616i225bc2f4h7a4a255be2e8bd5d@mail.gmail.com...

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Igor R wrote:

What's the deal with Winsock.h & Asio?

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I can see there's been chatter on this topic before, but not what the result is.

Could you please mention your Boost version, compiler and the specific issue you encounter?

Yeah, sorry, I thought this would instantly ring bells with folks!

Boost 1.38, Vis Studio 2005, and the issue is that unless I put the main Boost.Asio header first in my #include list I get a failure message

WinSock.h has already been included

from socket_types.hpp.

Thanks, Rob.

I'm not sure what the specific problem is, but this sounds eerily similar to the issues you encounter when using raw winsock programming without the presence of asio at all. If it's the problem I'm thinking of, then I'm pretty sure you can get around it by including before including . Including asio.h first probably works fine too as others have mentioned, but I don't always like to include boost header files in my precompiled headers, especially if most of the logic I'm using from those headers is encapsulated in one or two specific cpp files.