I am trying to create a UDP multicast socket program using VS2015 (C++ console application).
I got the following error,
Error C4996 'inet_addr': Use inet_pton() or InetPton() instead or define _WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS to disable deprecated API warnings mulitcast_listener
I tried to add _WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS symbol to my project settings via "Project"->"Properties"->"Configuration properties"->"C/C++"->"Preprocessor"->"Preprocessor definitions" .. But still it says the same.
And then I tried to add symbol above #include "stdafx.h" like
#define _WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS 1
and then No(/sdl-) on "Project"->"Properties"->"Configuration properties"->"C/C++"->General->SDL checks
now I get a error message saying
Warning C4603 '_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS': macro is not defined or definition is different after precompiled header
Finally I tried to implement
inet_pton(AF_INET, HELLO_GROUP, (PVOID *)(&mreq.imr_multiaddr.s_addr));
instead of
mreq.imr_multiaddr.s_addr = inet_addr(HELLO_GROUP);
I need to understand why the error didn't resolved even after adding the _WINSOCK... macro.
Thanks in advance.
Answer
As noted in the comments, the solution is to make sure that the line
#define _WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS
is placed after
#include "stdafx.h"
but before the other #include statements.