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Include files for libcurl, external users.
They're all placed in the curl subdirectory here for better fit in any kind
of environment. You should include files from here using...
#include <curl/curl.h>
... style and point the compiler's include path to the directory holding the
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curl subdirectory. It makes it more likely to survive future modifications.
NOTE FOR LIBCURL HACKERS
All the include files in this tree are written and intended to be installed on
a system that may serve multiple platforms and multiple applications, all
using libcurl (possibly even different libcurl installations using different
versions). Therefore, all header files in here must obey these rules:
* They cannot depend on or use configure-generated results from libcurl's or
curl's directories. Other applications may not run configure as (lib)curl
does, and using platform dependent info here may break other platforms.
* We cannot assume anything else but very basic compiler features being
present. While libcurl requires an ANSI C compiler to build, some of the
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earlier ANSI compilers clearly can't deal with some preprocessor operators.
* Newlines must remain unix-style for older compilers' sake.
* Comments must be written in the old-style /* unnested C-fashion */
To figure out how to do good and portable checks for features, operating
systems or specific hardwarare, a very good resource is Bjorn Reese's
collection at http://predef.sf.net/