From d23fa49c52e9e0310f938379c5af91f0b4e5fe46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" <laanwj@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:51:49 +0200
Subject: move WSAStartup to init

WSAStartup should be called before using any other socket
functions. BindListenPort is not called if not listening.

Closes #2585.
---
 src/init.cpp | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/init.cpp')

diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index f6485c3b1d..7024f3f785 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -453,6 +453,14 @@ bool AppInit2(boost::thread_group& threadGroup)
     typedef BOOL (WINAPI *PSETPROCDEPPOL)(DWORD);
     PSETPROCDEPPOL setProcDEPPol = (PSETPROCDEPPOL)GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandleA("Kernel32.dll"), "SetProcessDEPPolicy");
     if (setProcDEPPol != NULL) setProcDEPPol(PROCESS_DEP_ENABLE);
+
+    // Initialize Windows Sockets
+    WSADATA wsadata;
+    int ret = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsadata);
+    if (ret != NO_ERROR)
+    {
+        return InitError(strprintf("Error: TCP/IP socket library failed to start (WSAStartup returned error %d)", ret));
+    }
 #endif
 #ifndef WIN32
     umask(077);
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