Thanks, Daniel- that got me going in the right direction and I was able to get it running. There were lots of little gotchas and false starts, so to help others here are the steps I used, along with errors I encountered along the way:
1. download curl from https://github.com/curl/curl (note that this has to be set up as a git repository locally rather than just downloading the files, otherwise step #2 below will not work) 2. run buildconf.bat 3. run mingw32-make.exe mingw32 4. create new C project in codeblocks (main.c) 5. copy contents curl/docs/examples/url2file.c <https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/docs/examples/url2file.c> intro main.c for my test program 6. run program- gives error: "curl/curl.h: No such file or directory" 7. Under "Project/Build Options/Search directories/Compiler tab" add relative path to "myCurlGitDownload\curl\include\" (the .h files). 8. run program - gives error: "undefined reference to `curl_global_init'" 9. Under "Project/Build Options/Linker Settings", add "libcurldll.a" (from curl/lib/ folder) 10. run program - gives error: "The program can't start because libcurl.dll is missing... " 11. Under "Project/Build Options/Search directories/Linker", add relative path to "myCurlGitDownload\curl\lib\" 12. run program - it works! There is only one minor problem left: when I compile the code and then try to run the standalone .exe, it complains that "The program can't start because libcurl.dll is missing from your computer." If I copy libcurl.dll to the same directory as the .exe it works fine, but I would rather bundle the libcurl.dll into the .exe. I did try adding the CURL_STATICLIB compiler flag as described on https://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html#Link_errors_when_building_libcur, but that did not make any difference. >From searching on other sites, sounds like I might need a .lib file rather than a .dll if I want to bundle it into the executable, but I did not see any .lib files in the distribution. Is there a way to Make those? Thanks again for all the help, Greg On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:40 AM, Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Greg Saunders wrote: > > 1. downloaded curl from https://github.com/curl/curl >> 2. ran buildconf.bat (successfully) >> 3. created new C project in codeblocks (main.c) >> > > You seem to have skipped step 2a: build the library (and curl) > > It might work with just 'make mingw32' in the source tree root. > > > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
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