Re: Problems with libcurl on Visual C++ Express Edition
* borucik@gmail.com:
I am trying to use libcurl with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. I
downloaded the file from here:
http://curl.haxx.se/dlwiz/?type=lib&os=Win32&flav=-&ver 00%2FXP
It is the 7.16.0 version of the library. The 'lib' subdiretory
contains following files:
libcurl-4.dll
libcurl.la
libcurl.a
libcurl.dll.a
I added the 'include' subdirectory to the include path of the project
(VS sees the 'curl.h' file) and the libcurl.dll.a to the Linker-
Additional Dependencies so that the linker does its job (with one
warning however:
Linking...
libcurl.dll.a(d000116.o) : warning LNK4078: multiple '.text' sections
found with different attributes (E0000020)
[libcurl.dll.a] is probably a g++ import library. g++ uses the COFF
format which also Visual C++ uses, so there is some shared ground, but
the details are different. Ungood to mix. You need libraries built for
Visual C++. C++ has no standard, common binary format.
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