error in header file socket.h

Hi, I encouter this error while compilation after adding the header file socket.h to the include repertory of visual studio.10 and I am using matlab 2013. this is the log error file :

perform_front_propagation_anisotropic.cpp 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(119) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'sa_len' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(119) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(119) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(120) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'sa_family' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(120) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(120) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(129) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'sp_family' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(129) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(129) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(130) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'sp_protocol' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(130) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(130) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(173) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'msg_name' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(173) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(173) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(174) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'msg_namelen' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(174) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(174) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(176) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'msg_iovlen' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(176) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(176) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(177) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'msg_control' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(177) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(177) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(178) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'msg_controllen' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(178) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(178) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(197) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'cmsg_len' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(197) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(197) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(222) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'sa_family' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(222) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(222) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(230) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'msg_name' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(230) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(230) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(234) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'msg_accrights' 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(234) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(234) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\sys/socket.h(240) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'sys/cdefs.h': No such file or directory

any help would be appreciated;

[Walter Roberson]

For a C++ program, shouldn't you #include <socket> rather than #include <socket.h> ?

[jiji hr]

I don't think so sir, if that was the problem it should tell me that the file socket.h doesn't existe, but it is a problem with the socket.h file. Any way I think I found the problem where it is after paying attention to the contente of the file, I am actually working on windows, and It seems that i included i Unix File, so instead of including socket.h I had to include winsock2.h.

Thank you so much for your interaction.