curl.h no such file or directory

Question

I installed curl this command (i use Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install curl

When I test simple program using g++ test.cpp

#include <stdio.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode res;

  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");

    /* Perform the request, res will get the return code */ 
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    /* Check for errors */ 
    if(res != CURLE_OK)
      fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
              curl_easy_strerror(res));

    /* always cleanup */ 
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
  return 0;
}

g++ shows me:

fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install curl-devel

sudo apt-get install libcurl-dev

(will install the default alternative)

OR

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

(the OpenSSL variant)

OR

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

(the gnutls variant)

Answer 2

To those who use centos and have stumbled upon this post :

 $ yum install curl-devel

and when compiling your program example.cpp, link to the curl library:

 $ g++ example.cpp -lcurl -o example

"-o example" creates the executable example instead of the default a.out.

The next line runs example:

 $ ./example

Answer 3

Instead of downloading curl, down libcurl.

curl is just the application, libcurl is what you need for your C++ program

http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/curl

Answer 4

yes please download curl-devel as instructed above. also don't forget to link to lib curl:

-L/path/of/curl/lib/libcurl.a (g++)

cheers