The wallpaper fucks.

First of all, Arch has very few use cases imo for the average person, Debian is extremely stable but most of its problems come from outdated packages, maybe try fedora or something similar? just a suggestion.

Also, buggy is the wrong word, i’m being pedantic, but the problems you’re experiencing are very real, but most likely not from bugs.

I will say its interesting how a lot of tech people (myself included) tend to gaslight ourselves into believing stuff is easy, like the fediverse and linux, sure it makes sense to you but it likely doesn’t make sense to the average tiktok/bluesky user.

I’do go with c. Sent a link to us when you start!

I checked, and it doesn’t.

I’m trying to send a post request to Pastebins api to make a paste. This is one of the first programs I have tried to write with libcurl, so its probably wrong.

I have written code before. I just started with C recently. I am expecting it to do literally anything at this point, but for some reason whenever I use the libcurl library literally nothing happens that i can observe.

That works perfectly

PS C:\Users\username\3ds> gcc test.c -o test.exe 
PS C:\Users\username\3ds> ./test.exe
    Hello world

PS C:\Users\USERNAME\3ds> gcc test.c -o test.exe -IC:\Users\22.tom.carroll\scoop\apps\curl\current\include -LC:\Users\22.tom.carroll\scoop\apps\curl\current\lib -lcurl
PS C:\Users\USERNAMEl\3ds> ./test.exe
PS C:\Users\USERNAME3ds> ls


    Directory: C:\Users\USERNAME\3ds


Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
d-----        19/11/2024     20:48                c
-a----        29/11/2024     21:35           1880 file.c
-a----        29/11/2024     22:52           1409 test.c
-a----        29/11/2024     22:52         236221 test.exe


PS C:\Users\USERNAME\3ds>

Its not working unfortunatly.

Ah, right.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>

struct MemoryStruct {
    char *memory;
    size_t size;
};

size_t WriteMemoryCallback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, struct MemoryStruct *userp) {
    size_t realsize = size * nmemb;
    userp->memory = realloc(userp->memory, userp->size + realsize + 1);
    if(userp->memory == NULL) {
        return 0;
    }
    memcpy(&(userp->memory[userp->size]), contents, realsize);
    userp->size += realsize;
    userp->memory[userp->size] = 0;
    return realsize;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    CURLcode ret;
    CURL *hnd;
    struct MemoryStruct chunk;

    chunk.memory = malloc(1);
    chunk.size = 0;

    hnd = curl_easy_init();
    if(hnd) {
        curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, 102400L);
        curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_URL, "https://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php");
        curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L);
        curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "api_dev_key=API_KEY_HERE&api_paste_code=test&api_option=paste");
        curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE, (curl_off_t)81);
        curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "curl/8.9.1");
        curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 50L);
        curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
        curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP, 1L);
        curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPALIVE, 1L);
        curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteMemoryCallback);
        curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)&chunk);

        ret = curl_easy_perform(hnd);

        if(ret != CURLE_OK) {
            fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n", curl_easy_strerror(ret));
        } else {
            printf("%s\n", chunk.memory);
        }

        curl_easy_cleanup(hnd);
        free(chunk.memory);
    } else {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to initialize CURL\n");
    }

    return (int)ret;
}

Finished it, i think. Still does “nothing”

edit: probably shouldn’t include my api key with it.

You’re right, but it doesn’t do anything, no matter what the code is, so I assumed that I needn’t include it. Kinda stupid of me. In any case, here it is:

/********* Sample code generated by the curl command line tool **********
 * All curl_easy_setopt() options are documented at:
 * https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html
 ************************************************************************/
#include <curl/curl.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  CURLcode ret;
  CURL *hnd;

  hnd = curl_easy_init();
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, 102400L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_URL, "https://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "api_dev_key=MY_API_KEY&api_paste_code=test&api_option=paste");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE, (curl_off_t)81);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "curl/8.9.1");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 50L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP, 1L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPALIVE, 1L);

  /* Here is a list of options the curl code used that cannot get generated
     as source easily. You may choose to either not use them or implement
     them yourself.

  CURLOPT_WRITEDATA was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION was set to a function pointer
  CURLOPT_READDATA was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_READFUNCTION was set to a function pointer
  CURLOPT_SEEKDATA was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION was set to a function pointer
  CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_STDERR was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION was set to a function pointer
  CURLOPT_HEADERDATA was set to an object pointer

  */

  ret = curl_easy_perform(hnd);

  curl_easy_cleanup(hnd);
  hnd = NULL;

  return (int)ret;
}
/**** End of sample code ****/

Another piece of code i tried was:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>

int main(void) {
    CURL *curl;
    CURLcode res;


    curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT);
    curl = curl_easy_init();

    if(curl) {
       
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost:5000/a");

     
        const char *data = "hello!";
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, data);


        res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

     
        if(res != CURLE_OK) {
            fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n", curl_easy_strerror(res));
        }

  
        curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
    }

  
    curl_global_cleanup();

    return 0;
}

compiled it with gcc test.c -o test.exe -IC:\Users\MY_USERNAME\scoop\apps\curl\current\include -LC:\Users\MY_USERNAME\scoop\apps\curl\current\lib -lcurl but you can replace the paths with wherever the libcurl include directory is (i hope).

You’re right, but it doesn’t do anything, no matter what the code is, so I assumed that I needn’t include it. Kinda stupid of me. In any case, here it is:

/********* Sample code generated by the curl command line tool **********
 * All curl_easy_setopt() options are documented at:
 * https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html
 ************************************************************************/
#include <curl/curl.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  CURLcode ret;
  CURL *hnd;

  hnd = curl_easy_init();
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, 102400L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_URL, "https://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "api_dev_key=MY_API_KEY&api_paste_code=test&api_option=paste");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE, (curl_off_t)81);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "curl/8.9.1");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 50L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_FTP_SKIP_PASV_IP, 1L);
  curl_easy_setopt(hnd, CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPALIVE, 1L);

  /* Here is a list of options the curl code used that cannot get generated
     as source easily. You may choose to either not use them or implement
     them yourself.

  CURLOPT_WRITEDATA was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION was set to a function pointer
  CURLOPT_READDATA was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_READFUNCTION was set to a function pointer
  CURLOPT_SEEKDATA was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION was set to a function pointer
  CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_STDERR was set to an object pointer
  CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION was set to a function pointer
  CURLOPT_HEADERDATA was set to an object pointer

  */

  ret = curl_easy_perform(hnd);

  curl_easy_cleanup(hnd);
  hnd = NULL;

  return (int)ret;
}
/**** End of sample code ****/

Another piece of code i tried was:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>

int main(void) {
    CURL *curl;
    CURLcode res;


    curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT);
    curl = curl_easy_init();

    if(curl) {
       
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost:5000/a");

     
        const char *data = "hello!";
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, data);


        res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

     
        if(res != CURLE_OK) {
            fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n", curl_easy_strerror(res));
        }

  
        curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
    }

  
    curl_global_cleanup();

    return 0;
}

compiled it with gcc test.c -o test.exe -IC:\Users\MY_USERNAME\scoop\apps\curl\current\include -LC:\Users\MY_USERNAME\scoop\apps\curl\current\lib -lcurl but you can replace the paths with wherever the libcurl include directory is (i hope).

Might this work? https://droidian.org/ another commenter mentioned it.

slightly off topic. but this project got whatsapp running https://lemmy.kde.social/post/2232894

Its like wine but for android, it doesn’t run a full-fat android image like waydroid.

Every phone in europe has to have an unlockable bootloader, Although, thats useless without a custom recovery support.