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Re: [cURLpp] Compiling my own library with curlpp - error

From: Jean-Philippe Barette-LaPierre <jpbarrette_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:00:00 -0500

Is it possible to add this in the README.win32?

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Piotr Dobrogost <curlpp_at_2008.autoera.pl>wrote:

> George Elias wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having some problems when I include curlpp in my own library. This
> > is what I get:
> >
> >
> > C:\Projetos\curlpp-0.7.2\curlpp\cURLpp.hpp(66) : error C2065:
> > 'dllimport' : undeclared identifier
> > C:\Projetos\curlpp-0.7.2\curlpp\cURLpp.hpp(66) : error C2182:
> > '__cdeclspec' : illegal use of type 'void'
> > C:\Projetos\curlpp-0.7.2\curlpp\cURLpp.hpp(66) : error C2146: syntax
> > error : missing ';' before identifier 'initialize'
> > C:\Projetos\curlpp-0.7.2\curlpp\cURLpp.hpp(66) : fatal error C1075: end
> > of file found before the left brace '{' at
> > 'C:\Projetos\curlpp-0.7.2\curlpp\cURLpp.hpp(40)' was matched
> >
> > I have no idea why this shows up. I built curlpp on Visual Studio 7 as a
> > static library, it compiles fine, the problem is when I'm trying to
> > compile my own library (the one I'm developing).
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea why this happens?? I've googled for a couple
> > of days but no luck so far...
>
> George
>
> Line 66 of cURLpp.hpp (actually it's line 64) looks like this
> void CURLPPAPI initialize(long flags = CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
>
> What's important for us in this line is macro CURLPPAPI defined in dllfct.h
> file in this way
>
> /*
> * Decorate exportable functions for Win32 DLL linking.
> * This avoids using a .def file for building libcurl.dll.
> */
> #if (defined(WIN32) || defined(_WIN32)) && !defined(CURLPP_STATICLIB)
> #if defined(BUILDING_CURLPP)
> #define CURLPPAPI __declspec(dllexport)
> #else
> #define CURLPPAPI __declspec(dllimport)
> #endif
> #else
> #define CURLPPAPI
> #endif
>
> As you see this macro depens on four others; WIN32, _WIN32,
> CURLPP_STATICLIB and BUILDING_CURLPP. The first two (or one of them) is
> defined if you use VC. We must take care about the last two;
> CURLPP_STATICLIB and BUILDING_CURLPP.
> If you are building some library tht uses the static version of cURLpp you
> have to define CURLPP_STATICLIB (you set this in Project/<Project name>
> properties/Configuration Properties/C/C++/Preprocessor/Preprocessor
> Definitions.
> Also make sure you defined this macro befor building a static cURLpp
> library itself. For corectness you should also define BUILDING_CURLPP befor
> building cURLpp as well.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Regards
> Piotr Dobrogost
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