Is libcurl ready to use

[Goodman H__]

Greetings to everybody here!

Could be a silly question.But I failed to compile the exampe program under \lazarus\fpc\2.7.1\source\packages\libcurl\examples\testcurl.pp

I got an error something like :

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cant' find unixtypeWhen I tried to add unit unixtype to the projecct ,it complained again:

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could not find ptypes.inc

I stopped.I think this coul not work.

Is there anything I missed?

God,I was always encountering such issues that the project(compiler)can't find some unit ,I can search them in some folders and added them into the project by Project->Options->Paths.But to be honest,I don't quite understand 'Other unit files','Include Files','Libraries',to which I should add the file (In C/C++ I know whether a header file ,source file(s) or a lib file is missed.).So sometimes it works,sometimes the compiler still complains after I feed the files to the project.

Help would be much appreicated.

Regards,
Sam

[marcov]

Those are unix libs, IOW the header is simply not supported for Windows. 

Libcurl is quite unix centric, and people on Windows usually use a socket suite(Indy, Synapse) or something from the wininet api/unit. (which has FTP and http methods that also honor systemwide configured proxies)

Moreover, there is no "one" C compiler on Windows, so there could be up to 4 different libcurls in common use (cygwin or mingw could also be static, and MSVC, BCB in DLL form)

[Goodman H__]

Those are unix libs, IOW the header is simply not supported for Windows. 

Libcurl is quite unix centric, and people on Windows usually use a socket suite(Indy, Synapse) or something from the wininet api/unit. (which has FTP and http methods that also honor systemwide configured proxies)

Moreover, there is no "one" C compiler on Windows, so there could be up to 4 different libcurls in common use (cygwin or mingw could also be static, and MSVC, BCB in DLL form)

Got it.Thanks.May I know what's the best recommendation of a crossplatform library in freepascal/Lazarus then?

[BigChimp]

Would be nice to patch it with note in the source that the program is unix only just to make it clear.

http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24948

[BigChimp]

May I know what's the best recommendation of a crossplatform library in freepascal/Lazarus then?

I think that differs for each programmer. I find Synapse quite workable; e.g.
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/synapse#From_an_HTTP_server
AFAIR, Synapse also has proxy support, but haven't used it...

[Goodman H__]

May I know what's the best recommendation of a crossplatform library in freepascal/Lazarus then?

I think that differs for each programmer. I find Synapse quite workable; e.g.
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/synapse#From_an_HTTP_server
AFAIR, Synapse also has proxy support, but haven't used it...

Sorry,do you mean Synapse is cross-platform,both for win* and *nix?Thanks.

[BigChimp]

Yes, I do mean Synapse is cross-platform. Have run it e.g. on Windows and Linux.

[Leledumbo]

Synapse for code oriented (though there's visual synapse, but I don't know its state), lnet for component based or just use fcl-web (not as complete as others AFAIK, but should be enough for most usage and has a better future support since it's officially part of fpc). All of them are cross platform.

[Goodman H__]

Thank you all!

[tianya]

Synapse for code oriented (though there's visual synapse, but I don't know its state), lnet for component based or just use fcl-web (not as complete as others AFAIK, but should be enough for most usage and has a better future support since it's officially part of fpc). All of them are cross platform.

I'm Sorry,In windows 32bit system,In the 'C:\lazarus\fpc\3.0.2\units\i386-win32',I cant find libcurl,how can i build it?