Hello,

I need help to combine a c-program using curl(to retrieve txt files from internet) and another c-program using popen. currently the popen is using the command ls -l (to list the current folder in terminal).
I have 2 files, the first one is curl program,
which have to retrieve 2 text files from the internet and process them later(I haven't make the manipulation process in the code).

#include <curl/curl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define WEBPAGE_URL "http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2578.txt"
#define DESTINATION_FILE "out.txt"
#define WEBPAGE_URL2 "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt"
#define DESTINATION_FILE2 "out2.txt"
size_t write_data( void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmeb, void *stream)
{
 return fwrite(ptr,size,nmeb,stream);
}
 
int main()
{
 FILE * file = fopen(DESTINATION_FILE,"w+");
 FILE * file2 = fopen(DESTINATION_FILE2,"w+");
 if(!file){
 perror("File Open:");
 exit(0);
 }
 CURL *handle = curl_easy_init();
 curl_easy_setopt(handle,CURLOPT_URL,WEBPAGE_URL);
 curl_easy_setopt(handle,CURLOPT_URL,WEBPAGE_URL2);
 curl_easy_setopt(handle,CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_data);
 curl_easy_setopt(handle,CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, file);
 curl_easy_setopt(handle,CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, file2);
 curl_easy_perform(handle);
 curl_easy_cleanup(handle);
}

and the other is popen program,
which currently is listing the contents in the folder through terminal.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  FILE *fp;
  char line[130];
   
  fp = popen("ls -l", "r");		

  while ( fgets( line, sizeof line, fp))
  {
    printf("%s", line);
  }
  pclose(fp);
}

Now the thing is, I need to combine these 2 programs, so that only using 1 program files, I can retrieve txt files using curl as the command in popen, and can manipulate the retrieved txt files later on.

When I run the 2 program separately, it has no errors. but when I tried to combine and compile the code, it has some errors.
Here's my try:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>
#define WEBPAGE_URL "http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2578.txt"
#define DESTINATION_FILE "out.txt"
#define WEBPAGE_URL2 "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt"
#define DESTINATION_FILE2 "out2.txt"

size_t write_data( void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmeb, void *stream)
{
 return fwrite(ptr,size,nmeb,stream);
}

int main()
{
	FILE * file = fopen(DESTINATION_FILE,"w+");
	FILE * file2 = fopen(DESTINATION_FILE2,"w+");
	if(!file){
	 perror("File Open:");
	 exit(0);
	 }
	 CURL *handle = curl_easy_init();
	 curl_easy_setopt(handle,CURLOPT_URL,WEBPAGE_URL);
	 curl_easy_setopt(handle,CURLOPT_URL,WEBPAGE_URL2);
	 curl_easy_setopt(handle,CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_data);
	 curl_easy_setopt(handle,CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, file);
	 curl_easy_setopt(handle,CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, file2);
	 curl_easy_perform(handle);
	 curl_easy_cleanup(handle);
	
	FILE *fp;
	char line[130];
   
	fp = popen("handle", "r");

  while ( fgets( line, sizeof line, fp))
  {
    printf("%s", line);
  }
  pclose(fp);
}

and here's the error I got in the terminal during the compile:

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_curl_easy_init", referenced from:
      _main in ccsZ6bsW.o
  "_curl_easy_setopt", referenced from:
      _main in ccsZ6bsW.o
  "_curl_easy_perform", referenced from:
      _main in ccsZ6bsW.o
  "_curl_easy_cleanup", referenced from:
      _main in ccsZ6bsW.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Can anyone help me? I'm totally lost here.

Well, the error you are seeing is due to the fact that you haven't linked against the cirl library for your system (on linux-like systems this would look something like -lcurl as a parameter to the compiler).
Also, popen takes a program name to execute as if you were going to type it on your command line. Passing it a pointer from within your running program will likely not give you the results you desire. You will have to drop the curl setup code (the curl_ stuff) and figure out how to do that from the command line version.

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