libcurl
Newer languages such as Java and newer scripting languages such as Python come with good libraries to download files and do online work. A good way to download files using C/C++ is to download and install the libcurl library.
Newer languages such as Java and newer scripting languages such as Python come with good libraries to download files and do online work. A good way to download files using C/C++ is to download and install the libcurl library.
First run 'curl-config --libs' to see if you have the library '-libcurl' search for the package: 'apt-cache search libcurl' install the package: 'sudo apt-get install libcurl4-nss-dev' check to see if you have the package againNext, go to http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/simple.html. Copy and paste the code, save as 'simple.c' Change the "http://example.com" to something you want.
Compile your code: 'gcc simple.c -lcurl -o simple.out' Run the code: './simple.out' Output of (http://www.google.com/):
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/simple.html