[Regicide]

I'm looking to make a program that will work on a few different OS (Most likely Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows, and Linux). I want to make a program that uses sockets. I would like this program to be one universal terminal C or C++ program for those OS, meaning I don't want to make different versions for each OS. I know how to program with Winsock and sockets in general in Linux. From this I realize that Winsock and other sockets on other OS are very different. Is there a book or anything that teaches how to make a socket libary that is compatibile for alot of OSs? Or is there a socket libary available already that will let me do this?

[coderitr]

If you want the program to run on multiple platforms, consider java. Otherwise you're going to have to code compile-specific preprocessors into your code which, in my opinion, obfuscates code to the point that it becomes unmaintainable. From what little I know of java you can take the same executable and run it on any OS that has java runtime libraries installed. I could be totally off base on that -- someone more experienced with java would have to provide the clarification on that. Winsock implies Windows. You're not going to find any winsock specific functionality on Linux or Solaris of FreeBSD. However, these OS's should have socket support built into them since the idea of sockets originated with Unix anyway (just another idea pirated by Gates.) Amazon.com has a book called "TCP/IP Sockets In Java: Practical Guide for Programmers." I have no idea what this book contains or how useful it may be to you.

Good luck.