Crossplatform alternative to Winsock?

I basically am looking for a cross platform way to do basic things suc开发者_Python百科h as accept connections and send and receive data. What library would work in Linux, Windows and Mac?

Thanks

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Winsock is based on the BSD sockets API, which is natively supported on both Linux and OS X (ie. socket(), connect(), accept(), send(), recv(), select() and so forth).

There are some differences, but they are such that it's usually easier to port from Winsock to true BSD sockets than the reverse.

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For C++
http://pocoproject.org/documentation/index.html
http://www.boost.org/

Of course you can always look here:
What is a popular, multi-platform, free and open source socket library

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I would suggest Qt. It has a great slot/signal paradigm that makes threaded socket programming easy.

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Boost's ASIO is a good choise; I'd suggest struggle to understand it and stick to it - it covers most of the things you'll want.