issues with connect function - c

Question

I'm trying to get started on socket programming in C, and I was following a few guides, but I'm always getting this error:
warning:
passing argument 2 of ‘connect’ from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
45 | int status= connect(socket_desc , (struct sockaddr *) &server , sizeof(server));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| |
| struct sockaddr *
It wants struct sockaddr * to be constant, but when I try to make it constant, the connect() function doesn't have enough arguments.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
int main (){
int netsocket;
netsocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
struct sockaddr_in server;
server.sin_family = AF_INET;
server.sin_port = htons(9002);
server.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
int Verbindungsstatus = connect(netsocket, (struct sockaddr *) &server, sizeof(server));
if (Verbindungsstatus == -1){
printf("Connection error");
}
printf("Connected!");
return 0;
}

Answer 1

From the man page:
int connect(int sockfd, const struct sockaddr *addr,
socklen_t addrlen);
The second argument expects a const struct sockaddr *addr.
Perhaps try casting to (const struct sockaddr *) instead of (struct sockaddr *).
New code should use getaddrinfo() instead of manually filling the struct. See the man page for an example:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getaddrinfo.3.html
Aside: socket() may fail:
netsocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
Check its return value.
errno = 0;
if ((netsocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) == -1) {
perror("socket");
}