I know this compiler error usually means that you forgot to end a statement with a '';'', but the header in which this error occurs is the first header included in the main source-file, and there are no statements before it! Here''s the header...

#ifndef WS_UTIL_H
#define WS_UTIL_H

#include <winsock.h>

SOCK EstablishConnection(hostent *pheHost, sockaddr_in *saHost, char *szHost, WORD wPort);
int RecvData(SOCK Socket, char *szBuffer);
int SendData(SOCK Socket, char *szBuffer);
int CancelConnection(SOCK Socket, bool bShutdown);

#endif // WS_UTIL_H
 

The identifier that the compiler thinks is missing an '';'' before it is EstablishConnection. I never checked, but I don''t think winsock.h misses a '';'' ;-). Any ideas?

I''m not sure....but is SOCK something?

Yup, SOCK is nothing but a int typedef''ed in winsock.h...

Any OTHER ideas?

the compiler doesn''t know SOCK

maybe it''s typedefed inside an #if which isn''t satisfied...

probably errors in other header files. for example:

// in some.cpp#include "someheader.h"    // error here#include "wsutil.h"        // this get infected 

it''s the .cpp files that get compiled, thus errors are there, not in headers. I believe if you make one .cpp file, and just #include "wsutil.h" and nothing else in it, it won''t give you any errors. check your other files (sadly).

My compiler generates one error message: "does not compile."

are you sure?

try this just in case:

#ifndef SOCK
#define SOCK int
#endif

if you''re using vc++ 6.0, winsock.h has SOCKET as the typedef.