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Send a Wake-on-LAN Magic Packet

Demonstrates Socket.SendWakeOnLan, which sends a Wake-on-LAN magic packet for a MAC address to a UDP broadcast address and port.

Background. The MAC address is six bytes written as hexadecimal. Wake-on-LAN wakes a powered-down machine on the local network that has the feature enabled.

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const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

    const socket = try chilkat.Socket.init();
    defer socket.deinit();

    // Send a Wake-on-LAN magic packet to wake a machine by its MAC address.  The MAC is six bytes
    // written as hexadecimal, and the packet is sent to the UDP broadcast address and port.
    socket.sendWakeOnLan("000102030405", 9, "255.255.255.255") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try socket.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    std.debug.print("Wake-on-LAN packet sent.\n", .{});
}