How to use windows Socket instead of FSocket in UE4 project? is it possible?

Development Programming & Scripting
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I am using AirSim project. I want to transfer images with TCP. But I am not good at using FSocket. How to use windows Socket instead of FSocket in UE4 project? is it possible?

2

My best guess is that you may use WinSock2 in UE4 project. You do not have to do anything special. I’ve tried the following:

Created a c++ actor, and added a WinSock example in it’s BeginPlay

void AWSActor::BeginPlay()
{
    Super::BeginPlay();
    WSADATA wsaData;
    int iResult;
    iResult = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &wsaData);
    if (iResult != 0) {
        printf("WSAStartup failed: %d\n", iResult);
    }
}

added the necessary includes (winsock2.h and ws2tcpip.h), and checked the iResult variable. It was 0 so I guess everything worked.

I’ve read somewhere that UE depends on WinSock2, so it should link to ws2_32.lib, and there should be no problem.

Although I encourage you to learn and use UE sockets.

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Did you get it finished?
I would like to know how to get the image and how to transfer the image.

I am trying the same.