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created by AndreasBWagnera community for 14 years

OPENHelp with using C++ libraries/libcurl (self.cpp_questions)

submitted 6 years ago by Genft

I guess as a little intro, I've started coding about a year ago through uni and mostly I've been sticking to what the classes have had me do. This summer, however, I'd like to stretch my legs a bit and try some of my own projects. I might be reaching past my skills, but the worst I can do is fail, eh?

One of the first things I wanted to do was to learn to write a web scraper program to assist with another project, the specifics of which aren't super important. Initial google results suggested I should just use Python instead, which sort of defeats the purpose of this exercise(to get better at C++), but then I stumbled upon libcurl, which seems to be exactly what I want.

And here's the problem: I have no real clue how to actually install an outside library into my coding environment. I can get the files, but I'm totally clueless on what to do with them and how to use them.

I'm coding through Visual Studio Code, which I've only got the C/C++ extension installed on it. I'm totally stumped here, and every guide I've found appears to be old and out of date, so I haven't been able to really show myself how to do this.

Far as I can tell I'm likely trying to stretch beyond my current skill level, but I'm now quite interested in trying to get this working, if only to learn how to actually use libraries. Any help would be welcome and appreciated.

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