The example programs from this chapter can be compiled with any modern C compiler. We recommend MinGW on Windows and GCC on Linux and macOS. See appendices B, C, and D for compiler setup.
The code for this book can be found at https://github.com/codeplea/Hands-On-Network-Programming-with-C.
From the command line, you can download the code for this chapter with the following command:
git clone https://github.com/codeplea/Hands-On-Network-Programming-with-C
cd Hands-On-Network-Programming-with-C/chap06
Each example program in this chapter runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. When compiling on Windows, each example program requires linking with the Winsock library. This is accomplished by passing the -lws2_32 option to gcc.
We provide the exact commands needed to compile each example as they are introduced.
All of the example programs in this chapter require...