portable network library for pascal?

[JernejL]

Is there a portable network library for pascal, something like ENET? if not, what do you use for networking in your windows and linux games?

edit: i meant this enet:
http://enet.bespin.org/

[M109uk]

Hi Delfi,

Theres 2 i know of, which im thinking about using myself.. theres SDL Net, and there is HawkNL. I havn't looked in to either of them at the moment, i havn't really got that far yet.

[Robert Kosek]

*cough* Indy.

Apparently they have beta versions of Indy which work with FPC, but have incompatibilities with the Win64 OS and Solaris. Pretty safe to say that for the time being it is probably your best bet.

http://www.indyproject.org/Sockets/fpc/index.EN.aspx

[technomage]

Try

http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com...20&p=1#article

It's a 3 part intro into SDL_Net using the JEDI-SDL headers. It might help

[JernejL]

hawknl seems promising, i'll try that one, cheers!

[Almindor]

You could try lNet which is specifically ment for FPC and Lazarus. Works on many platforms, latest also winCE (experimental tho).

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/lNet

[JernejL]

But that's not quite game-oriented network library the way hawknl and enet are.

[Almindor]

But that's not quite game-oriented network library the way hawknl and enet are.

Elaborate... enet's main description applies to lNet too. The difference is that lNet ALSO provides some of the higher level stuff.

If you mean that OOP is too cumbersome then ok (wrong but I can accept that ). lNet was actually created for my game originally (and still not used in it ) and only eventually grew into what it is today.

[JernejL]

But that's not quite game-oriented network library the way hawknl and enet are.

Elaborate... enet's main description applies to lNet too. The difference is that lNet ALSO provides some of the higher level stuff.

If you mean that OOP is too cumbersome then ok (wrong but I can accept that ). lNet was actually created for my game originally (and still not used in it ) and only eventually grew into what it is today.

so, does inet provide enet's delivery of any size data over udp in proper order and properly handling split packets?

[Almindor]

so, does inet provide enet's delivery of any size data over udp in proper order and properly handling split packets?

No, but I tought you ment base TCP/UDP Misunderstanding then.