Win32 gcj: How to create a shared library and other w32 issues

[Danny Smith]

Jost Boekemeier  wrote:
> Third question: Does anyone know how to ask for the available bytes after
> opening a socket connection? -- gcj says that it is not supported on Win32,
> but somehow I don't believe this. :)
> 


Would something like this work?

Danny

#include <winsock2.h>

int inavail_winsock(SOCKET socket)
{
    int err;
    unsigned long num = 0;
    if (ioctlsocket (socket, FIONREAD, &num) == 0)
      return num;
    err = WSAGetLastError();
    /* handle it */
    return 0;
}

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