Thread: Trying to include a libary in Visual Studio

Hi there,

I'm trying to use cURL in a C++ app, but being new to using libraries, I've having trouble in setting up my program.

I've spent some time following the guides in Google, but they all seem to first show how to create your own library, I want to use the static (do want to use static) cURL one, not one I made myself.

First I'm creating a new project (called 'curl'), then I add a new source file (called main.cpp):

Into main.cpp I enter the code I found HERE.

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If I build the project now I get:

------ Build started: Project: curl, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
Compiling...
main.cpp
c:\documents and settings\administrator\my documents\visual studio 2005\projects\curl\curl\main.cpp(12) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'curl/curl.h': No such file or directory
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\curl\curl\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
curl - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

So I downloaded I downloaded curl-7.20.0.zip and extracted it.

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This is where I'm getting stuck. One of the guides suggests saving all my libraries into a separate folder in C:\libs so that the all the libraries in there will be accessible to all future VStudio projects (once I set it up), but I just want to add and use cURL in this particular project only.

So can anyone explain to me in simple steps how I can use the cURL library? Like I mentioned, I want to use the static library so that all the required code will be included in the final program's .exe.

Never used a library before, so if you can help me it would be really appreciated.

Many thanks for you help!

Did you follow this tutorial on the libcurl site?