Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] mingw linker cannot find -lsocket

[Don Ward]

Zainab Qureshi:

> When i enter the 'make' command for gnuradio i get the following error.
>
>
> configure:20701: checking for socket in -lsocket
> configure:20736: gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -Wall   conftest.c -lsocket
> > &5
> C:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: 
> cannot
> find -lsocket
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Can anyone help me in finding the solution to the problem?

This looks like the normal contents of config.log. (It is looking to see 
if -lsocket is present on your system; it isn't, and that's normal for 
MinGW.)

It would be very odd for this to be displayed on the screen when you run 
'make'.

-- Don W.