Unresolved external symbol LNK2019

Another way is that click right in your project in visual studio and go to following path and add "Ws2_32.lib" in that. Linker>Input> Additional Dependencies

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The problem is you are not linking against the Ws2_32.lib library. To fix this you can add that to your additional dependencies tab of linker/Input settings for your project. Alternatively (as pointed out by SChepurin in the comments) you can add

#pragma comment(lib, "Ws2_32.lib")

to a source file of your project.