Getting LibCurl to work with Visual Studio 2013
c++, dll, libcurl, visual-c++
Solution
I would say that in a comment, but I am lacking in points. You don't have to copy any .dll into your program run catalog. Go to Project | Properties | Configuration Properties and in line Envrionment write: `PATH=$(ExecutablePath)$(LocalDebuggerEnvironment)`.
From now on, all .dlls from any catalog you mention in Project|Project Properties|VC++ Directories|Binary should be usable without copying them.
The rest is exactly as you written.
Problem
I am having trouble getting LibCurl to work with Visual Studio 2013. I downloaded the current version (curl-7.33.0) and tried following the instructions I found on this site: Using LibCurl with Visual 2010 But I can't find curllib.lib in the folder I downloaded. And I am still getting errors: After searching the internet for more help. I now get these error messages. There appears to be a problem with linking to libcurl.lib? This is what I have configured: Inside /lib I have libcurl.lib and libcurl.dll UPDATE I downloaded this release for Win32 MSVC: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32 After adding the libcurl libraries and successfully compiling, I am now getting this error message: ``` The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application. ``` Here is the sample code I am trying to run: ``` #include <iostream> #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://google.com"); res = curl_easy_perform(curl); /* always cleanup */ curl_easy_cleanup(curl); } return 0; } ``` FINAL UPDATE I believe I have gotten LibCurl to work with Visual Studio 2013 now. Persistence ftw! Although, after spending hours trying to solve these error messages, I am a little hesitant at saying everything is working fine now. That is why I am putting a bounty on this question to get clear and concise instructions on getting LibCurl to work with Visual Studio 2013. This is what I did to get it to work: First, download the Win32 MSVC package here: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#Win32 For these instructions sake, let's say you downloaded to C:\LibCurl Start a new project in Visual Studio. Go to Project|Project Properties|VC++ Directories|Include Directories| Add the path to the include directory inside the downloaded package. (C:\LibCurl\include) Next, go to Project|Project Properties|Linker|General|Additional Library Directories| Add the path to the lib directory. (Where curllib.dll is located) Then, go to Project|Project Properties|Linker|Input|Additional Dependencies| And add curllib.lib Now if you compile a test program, you will likely get the message saying libsasl.dll is missing. You will need to download this file and put it in the same directory as your build. I used 7-Zip to extract libsasl.dll from OpenLDAP for Windows. OpenLDAP for Windows This is the result of my test code from above: