Why is #pragma comment (lib) not parsed?

Question

MinGW

#pragma comment (lib, "Ws2_32.lib")added to the code, but still throwing errors.

C:\Users\A-TECH~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ccMoTqr8.o	main.cpp:(.text+0x4f): undefined reference to `__imp_WSAStartup'
C:\Users\A-TECH~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ccMoTqr8.o	main.cpp:(.text+0x101): undefined reference to `__imp_WSACleanup'
C:\Users\A-TECH~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ccMoTqr8.o	main.cpp:(.text+0x137): undefined reference to `__imp_socket'

What's wrong?

Answer 1

Judging by the __imp decoration and the *.o extension, you are using the VS pragma on MinGW. Since I don't know what programming system you are on, go to the project settings and include the ws2_32 library.