Thanks a lot, Henrik. I downloaded libcurl again, and was able to compile
it without a glitch. As you pointed out, something somewhere must have
gotten messed up in my earlier attempt.
Thanks again.

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 3:21 PM Henrik Holst <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I just downloaded curl-7.78.0.tar.gz to check and the lib/bufref.h does
> not contain any #include. Something bad must have happened to your download
> or during unpacking.
>
> This is how the file looks in the archive:
>
> #ifndef HEADER_CURL_BUFREF_H
> #define HEADER_CURL_BUFREF_H
>
> /***************************************************************************
>  *                                  _   _ ____  _
>  *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
>  *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
>  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
>  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
>  *
>  * Copyright (C) 2021, Daniel Stenberg, <[email protected]>, et al.
>  *
>  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
>  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
>  * are also available at https://curl.se/docs/copyright.html.
>  *
>  * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
>  * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
>  * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
>  *
>  * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
> ANY
>  * KIND, either express or implied.
>  *
>
>  ***************************************************************************/
>
> /*
>  * Generic buffer reference.
>  */
> struct bufref {
>   void (*dtor)(void *);         /* Associated destructor. */
>   const unsigned char *ptr;     /* Referenced data buffer. */
>   size_t len;                   /* The data size in bytes. */
> #ifdef DEBUGBUILD
>   int signature;                /* Detect API use mistakes. */
> #endif
> };
>
>
> void Curl_bufref_init(struct bufref *br);
> void Curl_bufref_set(struct bufref *br, const void *ptr, size_t len,
>                      void (*dtor)(void *));
> const unsigned char *Curl_bufref_ptr(const struct bufref *br);
> size_t Curl_bufref_len(const struct bufref *br);
> CURLcode Curl_bufref_memdup(struct bufref *br, const void *ptr, size_t
> len);
> void Curl_bufref_free(struct bufref *br);
>
> /HH
>
> Den ons 1 sep. 2021 kl 21:02 skrev Abhinav Singhal via curl-library <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’m facing compilation issues while building libcurl 7.78.0 with the
>> newly added bufref.c and bufref.h files.
>>
>>
>>
>> For instance, bufref.h itself contains a “#include bufref.h” statement,
>> i.e. it hash includes itself, which gives the error "#include nested too
>> deeply". Once I removed it, it gave the error “incomplete definition of
>> type struct bufref”, because the definition of struct bufref is nowhere to
>> be found.
>>
>>
>>
>> I downloaded curl-7.78.0.tar.gz from curl.se/download.html. I am new to
>> libcurl, so I’m wondering if I missed something somewhere. Any pointers
>> would help.
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