How to include an h file locally, without visual studio? - c++

Question

I have a simple cpp code that uses curl.h as it's header file.
I use vscode, and not interested on linking via gui or w/e
How can I make the include statement work properly with the single project?
I got the header file from https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/include/curl/curl.h
Folder structure is like this:
/Folder
+-> curl.h
+-> curli.cpp
the code:
#include "curl.h"
using namespace std;
#define YOUR_URL "https://www.insertyourURLhere.com/"
#define USER_AND_PWD "user:password"
static string gs_strLastResponse;
// Callback to gather the response from the server. Comes in chunks (typically 16384 characters at a time), so needs to be stitched together.
size_t function_pt(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void * /*stream*/)
{
gs_strLastResponse += (const char*)ptr;
return size * nmemb;
}
bool CallServerWithCurl(string strData1, strData2, string& strErrorDescription)
{
CURL* curl = curl_easy_init();
if (curl == NULL)
{
strErrorDescription = "Unable to initialise Curl";
return false;
}
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, (YOUR_URL + "get_result").c_str());
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, MY_USER_AND_PWD); // set user name and password for the authentication
char* data1 = curl_easy_escape(curl, strData1.c_str(), 0);
char* data2 = curl_easy_escape(curl, strData2.c_str(), 0);
string strArguments = "id=" + data1 + "&task=" + data2;
const char* my_data = strArguments.c_str();
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, my_data);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, (long)strlen(my_data)); // if we don't provide POSTFIELDSIZE, libcurl will strlen() by itself
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L); // enable verbose for easier tracing
gs_strLastResponse = "";
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, function_pt); // set a callback to capture the server's response
CURLcode res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
// we have to call twice, first call authenticates, second call does the work
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if (res != CURLE_OK)
{
strErrorDescription = "Curl call to server failed";
return false;
}
if (!DoSomethingWithServerResponse(gs_strLastResponse))
{
strErrorDescription = "Curl call to server returned an unexpected response";
return false;
}
// extract some transfer info
double speed_upload, total_time;
curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_SPEED_UPLOAD, &speed_upload);
curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME, &total_time);
fprintf(stderr, "Speed: %.3f bytes/sec during %.3f seconds\n", speed_upload, total_time);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
return true;
}