[SDL] NET2 and Windows, successes? Strategies?

[Olof Bjarnason]

I've had no problems running NET2 on WinXP (SP1) -- my guess is that
your problem is a network config issue. Have you tried running a java
chat server/client on the same machine? Same problem?

/Olof

On 8/3/05, Frederic Barthelemy <fbartholibsdllist at umich.edu> wrote:
> [OT]-This is my first message to the mailing list, so hopefully I won't make
> too much of a fool of myself.
> 
> [Background]
> I'm new to network programming. I ran across libsdl about a year ago and
> realized how many different things it could do and I was almost overwhelmed.
> Some friends of mine and I used it as an interface for our small flight
> simulator game. I put it out of my mind until I was working on a new project
> where I wanted to write a music/file client of sorts. Looking around for
> cross-platform network code examples, that I could teach myself from, I ran
> again across SDL in the form of SDL_Net . After fiddling around with that
> for awhile I started to hack together an idea of the structure I wanted my
> network code. It was very ugly, drawing from a simple chatroom program and
> making it do things it really wasn't meant for. Then I ran across the NET2
> library by Robert Pendleton (http://www.gameprogrammer.com/game.html - can
> be found in the 3rd party libraries section of libsdl.org), and I realized I
> had found exactly what I wanted to use for my network managment. I grabbed
> the files and went to work looking at the examples to figure out how to use
> it.
> 
> [Problem]
> I attempted to compile the client and server examples and after dealing with
> configuration issues, I had two binaries (there was an issue where windows
> would need to have the INIT_EVENTTHREAD flag left off).  I ran the server,
> and it seems to work correctly, but when I run the client it fails to
> connect to the server. When debugging, I figured out that when resolving the
> host (to localhost or various IP's pointing at my machine) the SDL_Net
> function would return a different port from the one "I" asked for (wanted:
> 6666 received 2586) no matter what I do I can't seem to get the client to
> work properly.
> 
> [Setup]
> I'm running this on a P4 4ghz w/2gb RAM running WinXPSP2 private home
> network behind two NATting routers. This machine has no firewalls enabled.
> I'm compiling with Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 .NET, my code is C/C++ for
> this project.  I have SDL and SDL_Net to the best of my knowledge properly
> installed (I've been using them in separate projects) but I can't seem to
> get NET2 setup so that this problem doesn't occur.
> 
> I've talked to Robert Pendleton, and though he has had it work properly, he
> hasn't for awhile had a machine running Windows, and he suggested I mail
> this list. If anybody has had problems similar to mine, or better still
> would have any ideas how I can get NET2 to work properly, I would greatly
> appreciate the help.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Frederic B.
> 
> 
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