Problems with winsock2 functions in a big JUCEy project

Windows
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Howdy,
I have inherited a JUCE project and am trying to merge some new functionality into which uses a UDP socket. That code is all written and I’d prefer leave it as is. The trouble is, it uses a bunch of winsock/2.h functions like ntohl, recvfrom, etc. and there seems to be a conflict in the JUCE project somewhere because if I include winsock2.h I get winnt.h errors, a la:
1>d:\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.0a\include\winnt.h(1084): error C2988: unrecognizable template declaration/definition

if I don’t include winsock then it doesn’t know what ntohl(), etc. are.

I am aware of the JUCE datagrams code, this would require rewriting a chunk of code which is working outside of this JUCE project.

FWIW, I am in Visual Studio Express 2010.

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hmmm, well I have a working option but…

if I add #include<WinSock2.h> to the top of JuceHeader.h then everyone is happy but surely there is a more robust solution.

I suspect this would be a good time to use an ifndef or perhaps some linker options but for now I’m moving forward with this hack.

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The “unrecognisable template” thing sounds like it’s because you’re including winsock.h after juce.h, and juce defines a “T” macro which messes up some windows header code. Either “#undef T” or include your headers in the other order and it’ll be fine.

(I’m going to deprecate that damned T macro in the near future, it was a stupid idea, and has always been a PITA!)