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Liking a library: IDE

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Liking a library: IDE

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- [Instructor] Unlike the command prompt, with an integrated development environment or IDE, you must manually install the library on your system. Make a note of where the header and library files are located and if you can move them into an Include or Lib folder that's used directly by the IDE, that's a good idea. Now if you don't move the files, you must specify their directories for a project before you build and even then, not every IDE may provide for downloaded libraries to be added to your projects. Here in Code::Blocks, you must create a project for your code before you can link in a library so, start a new project, make it a Console application for the C programming language and let's make a title since I'm going to be testing the curl library. We'll call this one curltest and confirm it's where you want it located in this folder and we don't need to debug configuration. Our release is fine and the project…

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