Misisng netdb.h

lalpar · 01-13-2009, 04:49 AM

Hi ,

i am trying to have a socket program for receving files and the other end files are being sent..while compliling i am facing problems in identification of structures
struct servent ;
struct protoent ;
let me know if there is an alternate way to complie or am i missing something

knudfl · 01-13-2009, 08:39 AM

Welcome to Linux Questions.

If you have an rpm based Linux (e.g. Fedora) the
missing package is probably 'glibc-devel'

For a Debian Linux ( Ubuntu ) the package name
is 'libc6-dev'
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