On Feb 11, 2013, at 9:26 AM, Jürgen Keser <jkeser_at_computerworks.de> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> we use Mac OS X 10.8 and Xcode 4.5.2. Here we try now to create our first simple (Cocoa Application) example with the
> curl-library. We will download an file with this library and place the downloaded file to a special place. Enclosed I'll send you
> the code we use until now. The curl_easy_setopt functions return all true, but the file will not be downloaded.
> Also the Cocoa Application will cause an crash at the end. Is there anyone out there who can help me?

I noticed three problems immediately:

> fp = fopen(outfilename,"curl-7.29.0.tar.gz");

This is an illegal use of the fopen() function. Read the man page for more details, but you need to do something like this instead:
fp = fopen("/Path/To/Some/Place/Writable/curl-7.29.0.tar.gz", "w");

> if(CURLE_OK == (res = curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url))){
> NSAlert *alert = [[[NSAlert alloc] init] autorelease];

The NSAlert class is part of the AppKit framework. If you want to use AppKit, you need to initialize it first by calling either NSApplicationMain() or NSApplicationLoad(). See Apple's documentation for more information.

Also, you are autoreleasing an object without first creating an autorelease pool. Unless your tool is using GC (which is deprecated), you must first create an NSAutoreleasePool or use the @autoreleasepool directive before calling -autorelease.

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Nick Zitzmann
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