Programming Tips - Which library should I link my Winsock program to?

Date: 2013jan20
OS: Windows

Q.  Which library should I link my Winsock program to?

A.  These are the choices:

winsock.lib
wsock32.lib
ws2_32.lib

In my experience ws2_32.lib seems to be work on the largest number
of machines... from different versions of Windows, etc.