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Hello'n'stuff! Just thought I'd come back and say that I fixed my problem by myself since it drives me nuts when people are all like "Fixed it!" on forums and never say how. Anyway, to recap: I wanted to do networking in C but couldn't get any of the libraries I could find to "work" properly, and I didn't want to use straight Winsocks. So, I found https://github.com/uhub/awesome-c , which lead me to https://github.com/rxi/dyad . Spoiler alert, the entire project's source consists of precisely two files.

It worked for me out of the box. Note that without any changes to the source code, you have to do #include <dyad.c>, not dyad.h. Anyway, all good now! It does depend on Winsocks, but it worked totally fine for me using the same setup I had for ENet! I presume that library's broken at the moment, but this is even simpler than ENet is, so there.

No fancy-shmancy features; this is probably as close as I'll get to a library that does literally nothing but sends strings over a network. I'm happy!