Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development

1.7 libcurl

libcurl provides a client-side URL transfer library that supports HTTP and many other protocols. It supports the cURL command-line transfer tool. I refer to the library as cURL elsewhere in the book.

You can find the project home for cURL at ​http://curl.haxx.se/​ , and you can find downloads at ​http://curl.haxx.se/download.html​ . Download the appropriate file and unpack, perhaps into your home directory. Create a CURL_HOME environment variable; here’s an example:

export CURL_HOME=/home/jeff/curl-7.29.0

You can build the library using CMake.

cd $CURL_HOME
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make