I am having trouble getting LibCurl to work with Visual Studio 2013. I downloaded the current version (curl-7.33.0) and tried following the instructions I found on this site: Using LibCurl with Visual 2010
But I can't find curllib.lib in the folder I downloaded. And I am still getting errors:
After searching the internet for more help. I now get these error messages. There appears to be a problem with linking to libcurl.lib?
This is what I have configured:
Inside /lib I have libcurl.lib and libcurl.dll
UPDATE
I downloaded this release for Win32 MSVC: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32 After adding the libcurl libraries and successfully compiling, I am now getting this error message:
The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application.
Here is the sample code I am trying to run:
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl;
CURLcode res;
curl = curl_easy_init();
if (curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://google.com");
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
/* always cleanup */
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
return 0;
}
FINAL UPDATE
I believe I have gotten LibCurl to work with Visual Studio 2013 now. Persistence ftw! Although, after spending hours trying to solve these error messages, I am a little hesitant at saying everything is working fine now. That is why I am putting a bounty on this question to get clear and concise instructions on getting LibCurl to work with Visual Studio 2013.
This is what I did to get it to work:
First, download the Win32 MSVC package here: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32 For these instructions sake, let's say you downloaded to C:\LibCurl
Start a new project in Visual Studio. Go to Project|Project Properties|VC++ Directories|Include Directories| Add the path to the include directory inside the downloaded package. (C:\LibCurl\include)
Next, go to Project|Project Properties|Linker|General|Additional Library Directories| Add the path to the lib directory. (Where curllib.dll is located)
Then, go to Project|Project Properties|Linker|Input|Additional Dependencies| And add curllib.lib
Now if you compile a test program, you will likely get the message saying libsasl.dll is missing. You will need to download this file and put it in the same directory as your build. I used 7-Zip to extract libsasl.dll from OpenLDAP for Windows. OpenLDAP for Windows
This is the result of my test code from above:
A lot of these instructions are out of date because they recommend the win32-ssl-devel-msvc package for curl, which no longer exists.
The following instructions allow you to build libcurl using only:
C:\libcurl
)"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat"
To initialize your VC environment variables (adjust your VS 2013 installation directory as needed)cd C:\libcurl\winbuild
nmake /f Makefile.vc mode=static VC=12
C:\libcurl\builds\libcurl-vc12-x86-release-static-ipv6-sspi-winssl
C:\libcurl\builds\libcurl-vc12-x86-release-static-ipv6-sspi-winssl\include
CURL_STATICLIB
C:\libcurl\builds\libcurl-vc12-x86-release-static-ipv6-sspi-winssl\lib
libcurl_a.lib
The following sample shows a call to libcurl:
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <curl/curl.h>
void main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if (curl) printf("curl_easy_init() succeeded!\n");
else fprintf(stderr, "Error calling curl_easy_init().\n");
}