‘sockaddr_in6_t’ undeclared error even after inclusing the header files - c

I have following simple piece of code, which is a part of ipv6 handling module in a big project.
#include <ctype.h>
#include <sys/select.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
int main(){
sockaddr_in6_t* pSadrIn6 = (sockaddr_in6_t*) malloc(sizeof sockaddr_in6_t);
return 0;
}
It gives me following not error:
error: ‘sockaddr_in6_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
Is there any special library installation or linking that I need to access the library?

It looks like you copied this code from the Linux IPv6 HOWTO but didn't copy the additional typedefs:
/*
** Type definitions (for convenience).
*/
typedef enum { false = 0, true } boolean;
typedef struct sockaddr_in sockaddr_in_t;
typedef struct sockaddr_in6 sockaddr_in6_t;
Personally I would just use the types as they are (instead of extra typedefs to avoid typing struct), but whatever

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'SO_USELOOPBACK' was not declared in this scope

I am checking socket options and I got this error when I compile. I tried to google it and it looks like no one has encountered this problem before.
#include <netinet/tcp.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
static char *sock_str_flag(union val *, int);
struct sock_opts {
const char *opt_str;
int opt_level;
int opt_name;
char *(*opt_val_str)(union val *, int);
}sock_opts[] = {
{ "SO_USELOOPBACK", SOL_SOCKET, SO_USELOOPBACK, sock_str_flag } //this is the error
};
The socket option SO_USELOOPBACK is not a POSIX standard. The man page setsockopt() describes the nature of SO_USELOOPBACK in detail.
The SO_USELOOPBACK is a [Digital] standard. Text paragraphs preceded by [Digital] document features that are included in the DIGITAL UNIX software but are not currently specified by any standard that applies to the interface being described. Use these features when source code portability across multiple UNIX platforms is less important than the capabilities that the features provide.
For portability, you need to have ifdef checks.
struct sock_opts {
const char *opt_str;
int opt_level;
int opt_name;
char *(*opt_val_str)(union val *, int);
}sock_opts[] = {
/* .... */
#ifdef SO_USELOOPBACK
{"SO_USELOOPBACK", SOL_SOCKET, SO_USELOOPBACK, sock_str_flag }
#endif
/* .... */
};

How do I use user_regs_struct on ARM processor in ptrace-based debugger

I am following the code in Chapter 3 of "Learning Linux Binary Analysis". The code is, "A simple ptrace-based debugger".
I am trying to write this in my Raspberry Pi 3, which has an ARM processor. I know that the error means that I have not included the correct header file, but I cannot find what the correct header file is.
I get this error message:
field ‘pt_reg’ has incomplete type struct user_regs_struct pt_reg
After doing some research, I found asm/ptrace.h, which includes some macros for the registers struct specific to ARM. Am I on the right track? How in the world can I make this work with an ARM processor?
Here are the headers:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <elf.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/user.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/ptrace.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
typedef struct handle {
Elf64_Ehdr *ehdr;
Elf64_Phdr *phdr;
Elf64_Shdr *shdr;
uint8_t *mem;
char *symname;
Elf64_Addr symaddr;
struct user_regs_struct pt_reg;
char *exec;
} handle_t;

Storage Size of addrinfo isn't known

I am writing a simple network program in C. When I turned on -Wall with --std=c11, I got an error message about the way am declaring a struct.
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
int main() {
struct addrinfo res;
return 0;
}
The type addrinfo is defined in the sys/types.h file. I don't get an error when using a pointer.
How can I resolve this error message?
simple.c:9:25: error: storage size of ‘res’ isn’t known
struct addrinfo res;
^
Several points:
The type addrinfo is actually defined in netdb.h.
You can use the -E flag to gcc to see the pre-processor output and discover that the addrinfo structure is actually not defined in your code. Now you should suspect that probably some definition is missing.
As can be seen here, in order to expose the definition you need to use the _POSIX_C_SOURCE feature test macro.
So, this should resolve the mentioned error message:
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
int main() {
struct addrinfo res;
return 0;
}

"‘sockaddr_in’ undeclared (first use in this function)" error despite including the requisite headers

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <memory.h>
#include <ifaddrs.h>#include <net/if.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#define BACKLOG 10
void * get_in_addr(struct sockaddr *sa){
if(sa->sa_family == AF_INET){
return &((sockaddr_in *)sa)->sin_addr;
}
else if(sa->sa_family == AF_INET6){
return &((sockaddr_in6 *)sa)->sin6_addr;
}
}
I am using the sockaddr_in struct in my code to chekc whether an incoming connection is an IPv4 or an IPV6 address. I get the error "‘sockaddr_in’ undeclared (first use in this function)" here despite including the netinet/in.h header in my code. Is there something that I am not seeing here?
sockaddr_in is not typedef, so try using it with struct like following
(struct sockaddr_in *)

Storage size of sockaddr_in variable isn't known

I have a piece of code that used to work in some environment a long time ago. I'm pretty sure it was a FreeBSD machine so I got FreeBSD 8.3 and I'm trying to make this file but it's not working.
When I try to compile it it complains with:
f.c: In function 'tcp'>
f.c:24: error: storage size of 'socket_stru' isn't known
f.c:29: error: 'IPPROTO_TCP' undeclared (first use in this function)
...
I've been looking around and I see these are all specified in the sys/socket.h file. This is my actual file:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include "f.h"
int tcp4 (in_addr_t ip, int port, int qsize )
{
struct sockaddr_in socket_stru; // line 24
socket_stru.sin_family = AF_INET;
socket_stru.sin_port = htons(port);
socket_stru.sin_addr.s_addr = ip;
int actual_socket = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP); // line 29
...
I feel like my code somehow doesn't "read" the sys/socket.h file so it doesn't know about socket_stru and IPPROTO_TCP, but I'm just really lost.
Any ideas?
None of the other answers worked for me. After taking a look inside the sys/socket.h file, I didn't even see a definition for struct sockaddr_in.
What worked for me was to #include one of the following files when using the corresponding struct sockaddr_* type:
if you're using struct sockaddr_in, #include <netinet/in.h>
if you're using struct sockaddr_un, #include <sys/un.h>
if you're using struct sockaddr_ns, #include <netns/ns.h>
if you're using struct sockaddr_ndd, #include <sys/ndd_var.h>
More information on the header files for socket programming can be found here.
I cut and paste your code into a file (removing only the #include f.h and closed off the function call.) It compiles just fine on Linux.
I suspect there may be header files differences on BSD. For socket programming, I typically include ALL these header files. And I know my socket code compiles on BSD as well. I suspect one of these header files brings in the definition for sockaddr_in. I recall when I ported by socket code to BSD, I had to explicitly add a few of these.
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <memory.h>
#include <ifaddrs.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
/* the next two includes probably aren't relevant for you, but I typically use them all anyway */
#include <math.h>
#include <sys/termios.h>
Hope this helps
I had the same problem, but the following include fixed the issue for me
#include <arpa/inet.h>
Just add #include <resolv.h> to your source and you are good to go.
According to freebsd developer's handbook you need
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>

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