socket() returns -1

[shailesh333]

I have written a small piece of code in 'c' for a simple server
However when I call the socket function , it returns the value -1.
What could be the problem??

Any help will be appreciated... Thanks in advance.

I am using dev c++ as my IDE, and running the code in windows platform
The code is as follows:

#include<stdio.h>
//#include <ws2tcpip.h>
#include <winsock2.h>



int main()
{
    char cin;
    struct sockaddr_in server ;
    struct sockaddr_in dest ;
    int mysocket ;
    int socksize = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
    char msg[] = "server speaking:\tHello World !\n";
 memset(&server, 0 ,sizeof(server));
    server.sin_family = AF_INET ;
    server.sin_port = 8082 ;
    server.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY ;//inet_addr("127.0.0.1") ; //INADDR_ANY ;
    
    mysocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    printf("socket function return value:\t%d\n",mysocket);
    int bindreturn = bind(mysocket, (struct sockaddr*)&server, sizeof(struct sockaddr));
    printf("%d\n",bindreturn);
   
    
    listen(mysocket,1);
    
    int consocket = accept(mysocket, (struct sockaddr *)&dest, &socksize);
    if (consocket < 0)
    printf("waiting for client to connect:\t%d\n",consocket);
    while (consocket < 0)
    {
    }
    printf("waiting for client to connect:\t%d\n",consocket);
          
 
    while(consocket)
    {
            printf("%d\n",consocket);
        int consocket = accept(mysocket, (struct sockaddr *)&dest, &socksize);
        printf("Incoming connection from %s - sending welcome\n", inet_ntoa(dest.sin_addr));
        send(consocket, msg, strlen(msg), 0);
 
        
    }
    close(consocket);
    close(mysocket);
    
    scanf("%c", &cin);
    return 0;
}

[Banfa]

You haven't called WSAStartup. WinSock2 is not Berekley sockets, although it is designed to be fairly compatible, read up on WinSock2.