Developing on Windows can be a real pain. I spent a few hours looking around for an easy way to perform simple HTTP GET calls inside vanilla win32 code. What a pain. WinINet is a disaster and WinHTTP is not much better. It also isn’t supported on all the versions of Windows we target, argh. It turns out that you can get libcurl [one of favorite libraries] to work on Windows within Visual Studio. Here is a quick overview how to make it happen with the 7.16.4 release.
1. Download the source and load lib\curllib.vcproj in Visual Studio
2. In curllib project properties->Configuration Properties->C/C++->Code Generation->Runtime Library change the value to Multi-Threaded /MT [assuming a release build] so it correctly builds as a static library
3. Then in the project you intend to use libcurl – in the preprocessor section, define CURL_STATICLIB and add the curl include directories
4. In the linker section add curllib.lib, ws2_32.lib, winmm.lib
5. Prosper
For good measure, I’ve uploaded a release build of this lib that you can link to in your project [skip steps 1 and 2]
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