SOCKET error on compiling bitcoin source code

Question

I'm going to compile BitCoinD with some edits. When I try to do

mingw32-make -f makefile.mingw

it returns me this:

g++ -c -mthreads -O2 -w -Wall -Wextra -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-unused-par
ameter -g -DWIN32 -D_WINDOWS -DBOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -D
USE_IPV6 -DUSE_IPV6=1 -IC:/Users/Proprietario/Desktop/litecoin-master-0.8/src/le
veldb/include -IC:/Users/Proprietario/Desktop/litecoin-master-0.8/src/leveldb/he
lpers -I"C:/Users/Proprietario/Desktop/litecoin-master-0.8/src" -I"c:/MinGW/deps
/boost_1_54_0" -I"c:/MinGW/deps/db-4.7.25.NC/build_unix" -I"c:/MinGW/deps/openss
l-1.0.0d/include" -o obj/alert.o alert.cpp
In file included from netbase.h:11:0,
                 from util.h:30,
                 from alert.h:13,
                 from alert.cpp:11:
compat.h:29:15: error: conflicting declaration 'typedef u_int SOCKET'
In file included from c:\strawberry\c\bin\../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.7.3/..
/../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/winsock2.h:49:0,
                 from compat.h:15,
                 from netbase.h:11,
                 from util.h:30,
                 from alert.h:13,
                 from alert.cpp:11:
c:\strawberry\c\bin\../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.7.3/../../../../x86_64-w64-m
ingw32/include/psdk_inc/_socket_types.h:11:18: error: 'SOCKET' has a previous de
claration as 'typedef UINT_PTR SOCKET'
mingw32-make: *** [obj/alert.o] Error 1

What do I have to do?

Answer 1

compat.h:29:15: error: conflicting declaration 'typedef u_int SOCKET'

and

_socket_types.h:11:18: error: 'SOCKET' has a previous de claration as 'typedef UINT_PTR SOCKET'

Tells you that the type SOCKET has been defined in two different ways.
Get rid of or modify one of those typedefs.

It's also possible that you're including something you don't need to be including.