bluetooth help

[Michael Cronenworth]

Has anyone used Bluetooth devices with MinGW compiled programs?

I can perform a bluetooth scan and I can see devices, but calling 
connect() fails with a bad port/address message. I have a valid 
bluetooth address that I have verified exists in the address structure 
with a hex dump. I also know the bluetooth device is reachable in 
Windows as I can use PuTTY to connect to the COM port and talk to the 
device just fine.

It seems like the connect doesn't even try to reach the device as I have 
tried to connect when the device is not paired in windows and I never 
receive a pair prompt. Pairing the device manually doesn't help connect 
work though.

I have run out of ideas to what the cause of the failure is and Windows 
documentation is very lacking.

Thanks for any help,
Michael